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doesn't htop require you to go onto the box? We haven't released our custom pcp modules yet which allow more complex visualizations such as flamegraph generation from perf event sa…

"but no activity while actually watching things" is a false assumption. About 6-7% of upstream traffic at night in the US is Netflix...

I don't work on the recommendations team but I feel I can safely say your recommendations are calc'd each day. Unfortunately I can't share more about our recommendation model other…

The microservice architecture results in a larger footprint than you might find with a more monolithic app stack; which provides us with improved engineering velocity and reliabili…

Our architecture and the sheer number of microservices contributes to much of the scale. In order to achieve the engineering velocity and reliability goals we felt the explosion of…

From my experience Little's law is typically used to quantify the number of users in the system, a measure of concurrency. For the purpose of our tools we leverage the calculation …

we don't share our actual requests per-second numbers on the front door. We have mentioned that we run tens of thousands of instances across three AWS regions. Per the Atlas techbl…

As with the other hires on my team I'm thrilled to have Brendan onboard. I would also hope that if he happens to leave Netflix due to issues with the culture he will share that exp…