Draw inspiration from NetflixOSS, open source projects aimed at AWS reliability
April 5, 2014
Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Tony Patton.
One benefit of Google, Netflix, and other companies that build businesses on the web is that the innovations these businesses spawn can benefit everybody. Amazon is a great example; the company turned its infrastructure expertise into Amazon Web Services (AWS), which now powers much of the web. Netflix utilizes AWS for services and content delivery and has refined the technology to better fit its customer base. Netflix is sharing this refinement with the world.
Make AWS more reliable
Netflix’s Open Source Software (NetflixOSS) is aimed at making the services provided by AWS more reliable; the company’s efforts have involved everything from infrastructure to caching to building and deploying. Netflix has not reached the point where outages do not occur (is that possible?) as we saw in December 2013…
While Netflix has embraced the open source concept (believing that the collaboration and transparency will result in the best solutions), all of the code and solutions being shared focus on computing — the company is not sharing any of its innovations and technology around streaming video. Here is a sampling of some of the more prominent NetflixOSS projects…
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