Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt spoke with Gigaom about how important data science and cloud computing are to the company’s business, as well as why the internet is the perfect… Read more »
Microsoft announced a trio of new cloud data services on Wednesday aimed at stream processing and data pipelines. They’re not revolutionary, but they appear to have their own advantages, and they… Read more »
While some websites were forced offline as a result of Xen hypervisor updates affecting multiple cloud providers, Netflix once again remained up entirely. The biggest fear last weekend was for the… Read more »
Modern IT allows companies to free themselves from old enterprise constraints. However, business management and IT organizations must address ensuing conceptual and business model issues in order to succeed. Read more »
Enterprises must understand how APIs and PaaS can work together to build and deploy better enterprise applications more quickly and with much more reuse. Read more »
This article in IEEE Spectrum highlights some interesting research into making cloud computing more efficient by balancing the carbon footprints of global data centers and the latency of serving requests from… 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 »
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 »
Amazon Web Services outages have prodded customer Netflix to write software that can keep the service alive amid infrastructure issues. Now comes a new tool addressing issues around the Christmas Eve… Read more »