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Netflix
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Netflix Genie: Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service
Netflix open-sourced Genie in mid-2013 — a REST-based Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service that abstracted job submission across multiple Hadoop clusters. A key piece of Netflix's data platform that became an influential pattern for multi-cluster job routing.
Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS
Netflix's 2012 benchmark of SSD-backed Cassandra on AWS EC2 — showing 3-4x latency improvements over spinning disk for their use case. An early real-world data point on SSD economics in cloud distributed databases.
Netflix to Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys
Wired's report on Netflix open-sourcing the Simian Army — a suite of tools including Chaos Monkey that deliberately broke production systems to test resilience. The foundational document of chaos engineering as a discipline.