MezzFS — Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform
By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances
Open Sourcing Zuul 2
We are excited to announce the open sourcing of Zuul 2, Netflix’s cloud gateway. We use Zuul 2 at Netflix as the front door for all requests coming into Netflix’s cloud infrastructure. Zuul 2 significantly improves the architecture and features that allow our gateway to handle, route, and protect Netflix’s cloud systems, and helps provide our 125 million members the best experience possible. The C
Netflixにおける日本語字幕の導入
(Please note that this article is a localized (to Japanese) version of a corresponding tech blog article in the English language) Netflixでは、2015年9月の日本における配信サービス開始時から日本語字幕を提供しています。 今回のブログでは、日本語字幕提供に至るまでの技術的な取り組みについて説明します。 字幕ソースファイルの仕様、字幕ソースファイルからNetflix配信用字幕への変換モデル、Netflixにおける日本語字幕の納品モデルなどを取り上げます。さらに、W3C字幕規格Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2)導入に向けた対応についても触れます。 2014年の終盤にかけて、Netflixでは2015年9月に予定していた日
Implementing Japanese Subtitles on Netflix
Japanese subtitles were first made available on the Netflix service as a part of the Japanese launch in September 2015. This blog post provides a technical description of the work we did leading up to this launch. We cover topics including our specification for source subtitle files, the transformation model from source subtitle files to those deliverable on the Netflix service, the model for deli
Engineering Trade-Offs and The Netflix API Re-Architecture
Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility. Within that framework they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. Accordingly, teams are generally responsible for all aspects of their systems, ranging from design, architecture, development, deployments, and opera
Chaos Engineering Upgraded
Several years ago we introduced a tool called Chaos Monkey. This service pseudo-randomly plucks a server from our production deployment on AWS and kills it. At the time we were met with incredulity and skepticism. Are we crazy? In production?!? Our reasoning was sound, and the results bore that out. Since we knew that server failures are guaranteed to happen, we wanted those failures to happen dur
Announcing Suro
To make the best business and technical decisions, it is critical for Netflix to reliably collect application specific data in a timely fashion. At Netflix we deploy a fairly large number of AWS EC2 instances that host our web services and applications. They collectively emit more than 1.5 million events per second during peak hours, or around 80 billion events per day. The events could be log mes
Billing & Payments Engineering Meetup II
Payment Processing in the Cloud — Mathieu Chauvin — Payments EngineeringNow that Netflix has gained a tremendous experience with AWS, the Payments Engineering team has re-engineered their suite of applications into the cloud. It’s the first time payments are processed from a public cloud solution at this scale. This presentation gives more information about the technical design of this new solutio
The Netflix Dynamic Scripting Platform
by Sangeeta Narayanan Over the past couple of years, we have optimized the Netflix API with a view towards improving performance and increasing agility. In doing so, the API has evolved from a provider of RESTful web services to a platform that distributes development and deployment of new functionality across various teams within Netflix. At the core of the redesign is a Dynamic Scripting Platfor
Netflix Shares Cloud Load Balancing And Failover Tool: Eureka!
by Karthikeyan Ranganathan We are proud to announce Eureka, a service registry that is a critical component of the Netflix infrastructure in the AWS cloud, and underpins our mid-tier load balancing, deployment automation, data storage, caching and various other services. What is Eureka?Eureka is a REST based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of l
Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage
On Thursday, April 21st, Amazon experienced a large outage in AWS US-East which they describe here. This outage was highly publicized because it took down or severely hampered a number of popular websites that depend on AWS for hosting. Our post below describes our experience at Netflix with the outage, and what we’ve learned from it. Some BackgroundWhy were some websites impacted while others wer
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