AWS re:Invent 2016: Another Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer (DEV209)

Netflix is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. Netflix is a large, ever changing, ecosystem system serving million of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We’ll talk about: The Bits - The technologies used to run a global streaming company Making the Bits Bigger - Scaling at scale Keeping an Eye Out - Billions of metrics Break all the Things - Chaos in production is key DevOps - How culture affects your velocity and uptime