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I would've imagined Netflix had their own hardware, both compute and storage.

neom 9y ago
adrian cockcroft, who now works for aws, is known for a lot of his very early forward thinking approach to distributed applications and was responsible for their cloud architecture. I highly recommend checking out his medium and twitter, he's a brilliant man.
nailer 9y ago
I've heard they're looking at 'architecture in a box' solutions, which would allow them to abstract designs from specific cloud providers and perform cloud arbitrage; eg, if Cloud Provider X can run the app at 14c/hour, and Cloud Provider Y can run the app at 22c/hour, then they can just deploy the entire architecture on Cloud Provider Y.
- jjnoakes 9y ago
  Why would they choose the more expensive one?
  - 0x6c6f6c 9y ago
    On the off-chance that it becomes the cheaper one. Competitive markets change.
  - nailer 9y ago
    Because, er, I made a typo and it's too late to edit. Good spot!
- user5994461 9y ago
  Another simple problem that's solved: Auto scaling of stateless services across thousands of machines, in multiple datacenter and cloud providers all around the world. https://www.nomadproject.io/ https://www.nomadproject.io/ There are also kubernetes and mesosphere to do similar thing, but they are harder to use, you can't learn them over a week end.
kasey_junk 9y ago
They were fairly early and fairly vocal proponents of moving to cloud based systems. I haven't looked in awhile but last I checked all but their CDN was running on AWS.
- protomyth 9y ago
  I thought their CDN was FreeBSD machines and everything else was on AWS.
  - SEJeff 9y ago
    I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, as the GP is wrong and your post is on the money. Netflix runs their OpenConnect appliances at every big ISP that will let them put one there: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ They run Freebsd, and all of the web services (thousands of them) run in AWS on Linux. https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2016031942170/netflix-moves-all-global-traffic-to-open-connect-cdn.html https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2016031942170/netflix-moves-all-...
  - kasey_junk 9y ago
    Yeah that was my impression too.
- deleted 9y ago
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nimrody 9y ago
At least part of their content delivery network is based on their own hardware/software (see https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ and the PDF referenced there). It's called "Open Connect Appliance". They use AWS for video transcoding) (see http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/high-quality-video-encod...) and probably other activities (analytics, business)

neom 9y ago

adrian cockcroft, who now works for aws, is known for a lot of his very early forward thinking approach to distributed applications and was responsible for their cloud architecture. I highly recommend checking out his medium and twitter, he's a brilliant man.

nailer 9y ago

I've heard they're looking at 'architecture in a box' solutions, which would allow them to abstract designs from specific cloud providers and perform cloud arbitrage; eg, if Cloud Provider X can run the app at 14c/hour, and Cloud Provider Y can run the app at 22c/hour, then they can just deploy the entire architecture on Cloud Provider Y.

jjnoakes 9y ago
Why would they choose the more expensive one?
- 0x6c6f6c 9y ago
  On the off-chance that it becomes the cheaper one. Competitive markets change.
- nailer 9y ago
  Because, er, I made a typo and it's too late to edit. Good spot!
user5994461 9y ago
Another simple problem that's solved: Auto scaling of stateless services across thousands of machines, in multiple datacenter and cloud providers all around the world. https://www.nomadproject.io/ https://www.nomadproject.io/ There are also kubernetes and mesosphere to do similar thing, but they are harder to use, you can't learn them over a week end.

kasey_junk 9y ago

They were fairly early and fairly vocal proponents of moving to cloud based systems. I haven't looked in awhile but last I checked all but their CDN was running on AWS.

protomyth 9y ago
I thought their CDN was FreeBSD machines and everything else was on AWS.
- SEJeff 9y ago
  I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, as the GP is wrong and your post is on the money. Netflix runs their OpenConnect appliances at every big ISP that will let them put one there: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ They run Freebsd, and all of the web services (thousands of them) run in AWS on Linux. https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2016031942170/netflix-moves-all-global-traffic-to-open-connect-cdn.html https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2016031942170/netflix-moves-all-...
- kasey_junk 9y ago
  Yeah that was my impression too.
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nimrody 9y ago

At least part of their content delivery network is based on their own hardware/software (see https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ and the PDF referenced there). It's called "Open Connect Appliance". They use AWS for video transcoding) (see http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/high-quality-video-encod...) and probably other activities (analytics, business)