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by oofbey 1528 days ago
> They pioneered using the cloud to run at massive scale.

Which is to say they were AWS's biggest early customer? Doesn't really seem like Netflix should get the credit for that one.
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jedberg 1528 days ago
It was a lot more than that. They developed systems and techniques that even Amazon adopted and are still adopting to this day. They also created a ton of open source tools for other people to use the cloud:

https://netflix.github.io

Netflix tech even spawned a company to sell their open source tools:

https://www.armory.io

And they codified the entire practice of Chaos Engineering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering

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hetspookjee 1528 days ago
That stockphoto on the front page of armory.io manages to trigger al kinds of spammy website triggers for me.
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patmorgan23 1528 days ago
They were pretty influential in refining the microservices architecture
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