Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Magician's Trick

There are tons of info on the web about cloud computing and highly scalable systems. However, rarely the whole architecture of a product is illustrated. The architecture of a product is like the magician's trick: a trade secret.

That's why I got very excited when I stumbled upon the Netflix slides. For the first time, a product of such scalability and availability was showed in details.  For those who have always pondered how the magician pulls it off, this is treasure. Better yet, the SVForum Cloud and Virtualization SIG is doing a Netflix Night on March 27th. There is also another meetup on the same night focused on how Netflix migrated from Oracle to Cassandra. Are things too good to be true?

Global Netflix Platform
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