Why Your Company Copied Netflix's Architecture

Microservices solved a problem that most companies never had. Try out PostHog, it's genuinely awesome (and a lot of fun!): https://jetty.to/posthog So I've covered Netflix's engineering a couple times before, and one of the biggest things they've done was migrating to microservices. It was perfect for them, and it worked out so well that the rest of the industry followed suit. However, there's just one problem there... most of these other companies never even knew the problem they were copying the solution to. Sources: Four Reasons We Choose Amazon's Cloud as Our Computing Platform (Netflix, Dec 2010): https://netflixtechblog.com/four-reas... Netflix completes AWS migration, 2016 coverage (Data Center Dynamics): https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en... Netflix completes cloud migration (Silicon UK): https://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/cloud... Netflix cloud migration complete (InfoQ): https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/Ne... Netflix shipping centers slammed by problems (AP via NBC News, Aug 2008): https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26202698 Same AP wire, mirror (6abc): https://6abc.com/archive/6324438/ March 2008 outage (AP via NBC News): https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23783945 Shipping Snag Delays Netflix Customers' Rentals (NPR, Aug 2008): https://www.npr.org/2008/08/15/936194... Netflix shipping hub footage (2009):    • Netflix: Packing DVDs at lightning speed!   Netflix launches Watch Instantly (Forbes, Jan 2007): https://www.forbes.com/2007/01/15/net... Case studies in cloud migration, Neil Hunt's account (Increment): https://increment.com/cloud/case-stud... Completing the Netflix Cloud Migration (Netflix, 2016): https://about.netflix.com/en/news/com... The Netflix Simian Army (Netflix Tech Blog, Jul 2011): https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netfl... A Closer Look at the Christmas Eve Outage (Netflix Tech Blog): https://netflixtechblog.com/a-closer-... How an Amazon engineer's slip-up started the outage (The Register): https://www.theregister.com/2013/01/0... Isthmus, resiliency against ELB outages (Netflix Tech Blog): https://netflixtechblog.com/isthmus-r... Active-Active for Multi-Regional Resiliency (Netflix Tech Blog): https://netflixtechblog.com/active-ac... Migrating to Cloud Native with Microservices, Adrian Cockcroft (GOTO Berlin 2014):    • Migrating to Cloud Native with Microservic...   The reactions slide, Cockcroft's deck (SlideShare): https://www.slideshare.net/adriancock... Netflix CES 2016 Keynote (Netflix):    • Netflix CES 2016 Keynote | Reed Hastings, ...   ThePrimeagen's Netflix hire date (X): https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/173... Netflix OSS (GitHub): https://github.com/Netflix Goodbye Microservices (Segment, 2018): https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-micr... Segment's story on The Changelog (#312): https://changelog.com/podcast/312 Deconstructing the Monolith (Shopify Engineering, 2019): https://shopify.engineering/deconstru... Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify's Monolith (Shopify Engineering, 2020): https://shopify.engineering/shopify-m... Monoliths are the future, Kelsey Hightower (Changelog, 2020): https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths... Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower (The Pragmatic Engineer):    • Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Ke...   Scaling up the Prime Video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% (Prime Video Tech, 2023): https://www.primevideotech.com/video-... A portion of this video was sponsored by PostHog. If you're a developer, sign up to my free newsletter Dev Notes 👉 https://www.devnotesdaily.com/ If you're a student, checkout my Notion template Studious: https://notionstudent.com Don't know why you'd want to follow me on other socials. I don't even post. But here you go. 🐱‍🚀 GitHub: https://github.com/forrestknight 🐦 Twitter:   / forrestpknight   💼 LinkedIn:   / forrestpknight   📸 Instagram:   / forrestpknight