Netflix

In a recent post to my dev log, I mentioned I wanted to write about scaling strategies for Redis within Spinnaker, our primary storage engine. But before we can jump into that, a far more important topic is necessary: Monitoring and alerting. Without measuring your applications…

Happy new year-ish! As a developer working with open source software, I thought in 2018 I would start journaling bi-weekly about what I’m working on and what I’m thinking about from both a technical and strategic perspective. Code contributions are only…

Spinnaker is the continuous delivery platform open-sourced by Netflix. Netflix runs on over 100,000 AWS cloud instances and Spinnaker is used to deploy over 95% of them.

Spinnaker is the continuous delivery platform we’ve been building (and operating) over the past 2 years at Netflix. It represents many years of our team’s collective experiences delivering software at scale…

Part 2 of a series on how we scale and operate Spinnaker at Netflix.

This post outlines our approach to using metrics, dashboards and alerts to operationally support Spinnaker.

Part 3 of a series on how we scale and operate Spinnaker at Netflix.

This post offers insight into our approach to delivering custom Netflix-specific features for our hundreds of internal users…