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Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition
- jordanwallwork 11y agoSeems stupid to call it flux
- thechriswalker 11y agoSurely it's because it looks like a flux capacitor. Seems reasonable to me.
- deanCommie 11y agoCorrect. Compare the image at the top of the article (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UN25h8GKVw/VgxffFjqvUI/AAAAAAAAAQI/O6tlMA8Rkfo/s320/flux_intro.png http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UN25h8GKVw/VgxffFjqvUI/AAAAAAAAAQ...) to http://electroshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FluxCapacitor2.jpg http://electroshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FluxCapa...
- pluma 11y agoIsn'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.
- bdchauvette 11y agoThe GP might be referring to the fact that Facebook also has a project called Flux [1]. [1] https://facebook.github.io/flux/ https://facebook.github.io/flux/
- agumonkey 11y agoAgreed, considering how new and trendy Flux is ... that is a weird name usage.
- oh_sigh 11y agoThey should have called it Uterus.
- jlas 11y agoI came here just to confirm that someone would complain about the name.
- evan_ 11y agoEspecially since Netflix is using React pretty heavily- they must know that there's a conflict.
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- stedaniels 11y agoFor 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
- PudgePacket 11y agoIt'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.
- mAritz 11y agoThe latter part is because it was a simulated failure using their Chaos Kong (follow their link to Chaos Experiment: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad... ).
- mkobit 11y agoA really interesting article from a couple years ago that talks about their tech behind the regional failover can be found here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/active-active-for-multi-regional.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/active-active-for-multi-...
- nstart 11y agoIs 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. [1]http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad...
- rocketcity 11y agoI want this NOW. Anyone know if they are planning on open-sourcing this project?
- nstart 11y agoI'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.
- oh_sigh 11y agoUh...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.
- webXL 11y agoUnless you're starting from the ground up...
- mwagstaff 11y agoReminds me of Logstalgia, which was a cool log visualization tool for its time - http://logstalgia.io/ http://logstalgia.io/
- outworlder 11y agoNever had heard of that, thanks! EDIT: apparently, by the author of Gource(http://gource.io/ http://gource.io/). That one I had used before.
- lovelydrop 11y agoand yet, they cannot come up with a creative name
- aikah 11y agoFunny you say that. JSX existed as a language that compiles to javascript before Facebook choosed to use that name : https://github.com/jsx/JSX https://github.com/jsx/JSX and don't get me started on flux,relay or graphQL ...
- netghost 11y agoAnd even before that Firefox supported a different JSX which also let you embed xml in JS. Looks like they removed it some time ago...
- aikah 11y agoI think you are talking about e4x. It is really too bad it didn't end up in the spec.
- orbifold 11y agochoosed -> chose
- aikah 11y agoYeah, I always had hard time with this verb, excuse my french.
- pitchups 11y agoFor a moment there I thought the "pain" suit was real- as it reminded me of this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans?language=en http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_se... A more humane, non-painful version of the suit may be entirely possible!
- 3lux 11y agocool! but they couldn't have thought of a different name?
- BaconJuice 11y agoThey named it flux because it looks like the Flux Capacitor. http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor Perfect name if you ask me :)
- webXL 11y agoI thought this article was a new use-case of FB's Flux initially. Great name, but perhaps the headline could have read "Netflix Flux: ..." or "Traffic Flux: ..."
- aristus 11y agoNice! A few years ago I made a little program like this, called packet flight, to visualize network flows. It's a nice way to see the magic: https://vimeo.com/17248120 https://vimeo.com/17248120