The Netflix Tech Blog: Python at Netflix
techblog.netflix.com
on 03/11/2013
Excerpt: We’ve blogged a lot about how we use Java here at Netflix, but Python’s footprint in our environment continues to increase. In honor of our sponsorship of PyCon, we wanted to highlight our many uses of Python at Netflix. Developers at Netflix have the freedom to choose the technologies best suited for the job. More and more, developers turn to Python due to its rich batteries-included standard library, succinct and clean yet expressive syntax, large developer community, and the wealth of third party libraries one can tap into to solve a given problem. Its dynamic underpinnings enable developers to rapidly iterate and innovate, two very important qualities at Netflix.... read the full post.
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The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Queue: Data migration for a high volume web application
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on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: There will come a time in the life of most systems serving data, when there is a need to migrate data to a more reliable, scalable and high performance data store while maintaining or improving data consistency, latency and efficiency. This document explains the data migration technique we used at Netflix to migrate the user’s queue data between two different distributed NoSQL storage systems. The Netflix Queue lets you keep and maintain a list of the movies & TV shows you want to watch on your devices and computers.
Netflix embraces Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) composed of many small fine grained services that do one thing and one thing well.... read the full post.
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The Netflix Tech Blog: Optimizing the Netflix API
techblog.netflix.com
on 01/16/2013
Excerpt: About a year ago the Netflix API team began redesigning the API to improve performance and enable UI engineering teams within Netflix to optimize client applications for specific devices. Philosophies of the redesign were introduced in a previous post about embracing the differences between the different clients and devices. This post is part one of a series on the architecture of our redesigned API. One of the key drivers in pursuing the redesign in the first place was to reduce the chatty nature of our client/server communication, which could be hindering the overall performance of our device implementations.... read the full post.
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Excerpt: There will come a time in the life of most systems serving data, when there is a need to migrate data to a more reliable, scalable and high performance data store while maintaining or improving data consistency, latency and efficiency. This document explains the data migration technique we used at Netflix to migrate the user’s queue data between two different distributed NoSQL storage systems. The Netflix Queue lets you keep and maintain a list of the movies & TV shows you want to watch on your devices and computers. Netflix embraces Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) composed of many small fine grained services that do one thing and one thing well.... read the full post.
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