Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform

Various previous Tech Blog posts have referred to our centralized monitoring system, and we've presented at least one talk about it previously. Today, we want to both discuss the platform and ecosystem we built for time-series telemetry and its capabilities and announce the...

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Version 7: The Evolution of JavaScript

By Jafar HusainWe held our last Netflix JavaScript Talks event of 2014 on Dec. 2nd, where we discussed some of the interesting features already available for use in JavaScript 6, and where things are headed with JavaScript 7. As a member of the JavaScript TC39 ECMAScript committee, Netflix has been working with other committee members to explore powerful...

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Node.js in Flames

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ZeroToDocker: An easy way to evaluate NetflixOSS through runtime packaging

Motivation:The NetflixOSS platform and related ecosystem services are extensive.  While we make every attempt to document each project, being able to quickly evaluate NetflixOSS is a large challenge due to the breadth for most users.  This becomes a very large challenge...

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Genie 2.0: Second Wish Granted!

By Tom Gianos and Amit Sharma @ Big Data Platform TeamA little over a year ago we announced Genie, a distributed job and resource management tool. Since then, Genie has operated in production at Netflix, servicing tens of thousands of ETL and analytics jobs daily. There were...

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