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Statistics for Why Web Performance Matters
Following are some good posts with further evidence of the impact of webpage/webapp responsiveness to the user experience, amount of usage and ultimately revenue. Good introductory quote to the...
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Making the Netflix API More Resilient
A new Netflix Tech Blog post by my manager (Ben Schmaus) discusses how we’ve been making the Netflix API more resilient through the use of circuit breakers, bounded thread-pools and realtime decision...
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Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed System
Originally posted on the Netflix Tech Blog: In an earlier post by Ben Schmaus, we shared the principles behind our circuit-breaker implementation. In that post, Ben discusses how the Netflix API...
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Performance and Fault Tolerance for the Netflix API – QCon Sao Paulo
A presentation I gave at QCon Sao Paulo on August 4th 2012 (http://qconsp.com/palestrante/ben-christensen) Presentation Description The Netflix API receives over a billion requests a day which...
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Hystrix for Resilience Engineering
Today Hystrix was released on GitHub at http://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix . It is a latency and fault tolerance library used for resilience engineering and something I have spent a good chunk of time...
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Hystrix Dashboard + Turbine Stream Aggregator
Originally posted to the Netflix Tech Blog: by Ben Christensen, Puneet Oberai and Ben Schmaus Two weeks ago we introduced Hystrix, a library for engineering resilience into distributed systems. Today...
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Optimizing the Netflix API
Originally written for and posted on the Netflix Tech Blog: About a year ago the Netflix API team began redesigning the API to improve performance and enable UI engineering teams within Netflix to...
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Functional Reactive in the Netflix API with RxJava
Originally written for and posted on the Netflix Tech Blog. by Ben Christensen and Jafar Husain Our recent post on optimizing the Netflix API introduced how our web service endpoints are implemented...
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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API – QCon London 2013
I had the opportunity to speak at QCon London 2013 and present Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API: Slides on Speakerdeck Video on InfoQ Interview on InfoQ on Resilience at Netflix with...
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Application Resilience in a Service-Oriented Architecture using Hystrix
Originally written for programming.oreilly.com: Web-scale applications such as Netflix serve millions of customers using thousands of servers across multiple data centers. Unmitigated system failures...
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