Netflix has open sourced a tool called Suro that collects event data from disparate application servers before sending them to other data platforms such as Hadoop and Elasticsearch. It’s more big… Read more »
Netflix is now running its streaming service live across two regions of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, an architectural decision that should avoid a nasty service disruption like the one… Read more »
Cloud developers and engineers have probably heard about Netflix’s (s nflx)Chaos Monkey before, and now the company has turned the tool to its production Cassandra database clusters, as this post explains… Read more »
Paypal is a finalist in the Netflix OSS Cloud Prize contest for a project called Aurora, which is Netflix’s Asgard cloud-management system rebuilt for OpenStack. Netflix is famously a big Amazon… Read more »
Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly moved its production application off of Rackspace in 2011 to save costs. Two years later, it has watched Amazon Web Services costs drop precipitously, and now CTO… Read more »
Almost anything you want to know about how Netflix is scaling its streaming API to support a growing number of users. devices and geographies. No matter how many times I read… Read more »
There has been a lot of talk about data after the success of “Orange is the New Black” on Netflix, but as the content competition picks up in streaming TV, it… Read more »
Oracle’s 12c database is definitely designed with software-as-a-service providers in mind, but there’s a big difference between Salesforce.com and the next generation of cloud-service startups. Read more »
Data scientist might be the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it’s hardly an easy gig to land. Here is some advice from practitioners at Netflix, Orbitz and Hortonworks on… Read more »