The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. In the snippet above, we’re accessing the detail key for the video object with id 80154610.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Our response was to create Cosmos, a platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. High-level topics on the O’Reilly online learning platform with the most usage in 2019 (left) and the rate of change for each topic (right). Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the process, we changed end-to-end identity propagation within the network of services to use a cryptographically-verifiable token-agnostic identity object. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. Introduction. Object Stores.

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