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What Working at Netflix Is Like The Netflix team has to be dynamic in order to move as quickly as the demand of its audience. Because of that, the company only hires senior engineers, avoids actually sticking to process whenever possible, encourages a great deal of employee freedom, and even pushes budgets to the side. |
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If There Is No Network, There Is No Cloud As more services shift to the cloud, the reliability, security, and quality of the network become of paramount importance. Beth Cohen examines private networks as a way to solve the problem of notoriously unreliable Internet service. |
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Cloud Prediction: High Availability with a Chance of Downtime In the past, disaster recovery meant either paying for expensive data replication services to remote data center hot sites or purchasing full sets of redundant hardware. Some companies were willing to pay for that peace of mind, but others went looking for more cost-effective approaches. |
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Embracing Chaos Testing Helps Create Near-Perfect Clouds Netflix's "Simian Army" consists of services (Monkeys) in the cloud for generating various kinds of failures or abnormal conditions and then testing the system's ability to survive them. Chaos Monkey works on the premise that if we need to design for high availability, we should design for failure. |
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Hystrix: Open Source Cloud Resiliency Release from Netflix Chris Haddad takes a close look at Hystrix—an open source library that improves cloud resiliency and fault tolerance by preventing cascading failures, isolating downed services, and rerouting service connections. Hystrix joins a growing list of Netflix sponsored open source cloud projects. |
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Netflix Has a Eureka Moment Netflix recently announced an open source cloud service registry and cloud load balancer project called Eureka. If dynamic registry updates and run-time instance discovery are within your cloud project requirements, consider using Eureka in your Java PaaS framework. |
