Is it just me or has the Netflix engineering team really been cranking out good stuff as of recent times? I mean holy crap. This thing feels so futuristic just watching it. I can't begin to express how blown away I am.
Given how crazy creative the netflix team is, it's not a stretch to imagine their next hackathon. Put this on a big screen and sit in front of it. Throw in a few hazard lights and a siren and music that plays automatically the moment there's a failure and it's a done deal.
Side note: If you want to get a better understanding of what you are reading, the inline linked article[1] is a must read
Also, I actually thought the pain suit was a real thing for a moment. Well played Netflix. Well played.
For those reading comments first and hoping a title like this means Netflix is finally doing something decent in the way suggestions and not showing the same move/show on multiple sliders on the same page. I.e. it's now got better intuition.. you'll be disappointed.
If your looking for really fancy Netflix network infrastructure stuff, dive right in! They are great at this stuff :-D
I'd be surprised if they did. This seems pretty specific to their kind of high volume traffic business. And to their distributed nature of data and latency management etc. Not sure how applicable it will be to other businesses.
That said, since it is at its core a logging tool of sorts, it's possible that it's decoupled enough to put it out. But that's really stretching it.
Uh...you realize the visualization is probably the easiest part of this tool? Getting realtime insight into your network is the much harder problem, and you will need to implement that all yourself.
It's pretty amazing that the traffic was nearly entirely redirected in 20 seconds and then whatever issue that was plaguing the server was resolved so quickly.
Isn't that mostly an accident of the current data center infrastructure and subject to change? If they had waited until, say, EU-East-1 or Asia-East-1 came along they might as well have called it Switzerland.
Given how crazy creative the netflix team is, it's not a stretch to imagine their next hackathon. Put this on a big screen and sit in front of it. Throw in a few hazard lights and a siren and music that plays automatically the moment there's a failure and it's a done deal.
Side note: If you want to get a better understanding of what you are reading, the inline linked article[1] is a must read
Also, I actually thought the pain suit was a real thing for a moment. Well played Netflix. Well played.
[1]http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad...