Moving from Asgard to Spinnaker

Six years ago, Netflix successfully jumped headfirst into the AWS Cloud and along the way we ended up writing quite a lot of software to help us out. One particular project proved instrumental in allowing us to efficiently automate AWS deployments: Asgard. Asgard created an intuitive model for cloud-based applications that has made deployment...

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Creating Your Own EC2 Spot Market

by: Andrew Park, Darrell Denlinger, & Coburn WatsonNetflix prioritizes innovation and reliability above efficiency, and as we continue to scale globally, finding opportunities that balance these three variables becomes increasingly difficult. However, every so often there...

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Chaos Engineering Upgraded

Several years ago we introduced a tool called Chaos Monkey. This service pseudo-randomly plucks a server from our production deployment on AWS and kills it. At the time we were met with incredulity and skepticism. Are we crazy? In production?!?Our reasoning was sound, and...

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John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus

Hi, this is Anthony Park, VP of Engineering at Netflix. We've been working with Oculus to develop a Netflix app for Samsung Gear VR. The app includes a Netflix Living Room, allowing members to get the Netflix experience from the comfort of a virtual couch, wherever they bring...

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Announcing Electric Eye

By: Michael RussellNetflix ships on a wide variety of devices, ranging from small thumbdrive-sized HDMI dongles to ultra-massive 100”+ curved screen HDTVs, and the wide variety of form factors leads to some interesting challenges in testing. In this post, we’re going to describe...

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Introducing Lemur

by: Kevin Glisson, Jason Chan and Ben HagenNetflix is pleased to announce the open source release of our x.509 certificate orchestration framework : Lemur!The Challenge of Certificate ManagementPublic Key Infrastructure is a set of hardware, software, people, policies,...

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