Few internet companies operate on the scale of Netflix (this is a mathematical certainty with respect to bandwidth, given that Netflix accounts for almost 37% of all traffic). To make that work, Netflix relies on a host of microservices built and managed by their many developers.

In this episode, I spoke with Sangeeta Narayanan, engineering manager of Edge Developer Experience at Netflix. Her team works on the developer experience with respect to the API that all Netflix apps talk to. Our conversation covered a range of topics around how Netflix is able to maintain a reliable and fast service. As part of that, we touched upon a number of open source projects that Netflix has released that can help you manage your own cloud services.

Links:

• Sangeeta Narayanan on Twitter (@sangeetan)
• Sangeeta on LinkedIn
• Peter Seibel on Engineering Effectiveness at Twitter
• Netflix Culture: Freedom and Responsibility
• Netflix Tech Blog
• Bitbucket Server (formerly Atlassian Stash, which is how it was referred to in the podcast)
• Jenkins continuous integration server
• Spinnaker multi-cloud aware continuous delivery
• Docker platform for distributed applications
• Immutable infrastructure
• Cassandra
• Canary process or canary release
• Release It! book by Michael Nygard
• Hysterix fault tolerance library
• Simian Army resiliency tools
• Principles of Chaos Engineering
• Gradle build automation tool
• Sangeeta’s links of note
  • Martin Fowler’s blog
  • Drift Into Failure book by Sidney Dekker
  • The Phoenix Project book by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

The music for this episode is Aitech by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com). Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0