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Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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Re: Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially since Netflix is using React pretty heavily- they must know that there's a conflict.

React is tangible and an actual product; FB's flux is a cute name for a very fuzzy concept.

Well, Flux is a library as well, and it's pretty well understood. Not sure what's fuzzy about it.

Re: Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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It's pretty amazing that the traffic was nearly entirely redirected in 20 seconds and then whatever issue that was plaguing the server was resolved so quickly.

The latter part is because it was a simulated failure using their Chaos Kong (follow their link to Chaos Experiment: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad... ).

A really interesting article from a couple years ago that talks about their tech behind the regional failover can be found here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/active-active-for-multi-...

Re: Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely it's because it looks like a flux capacitor. Seems reasonable to me.

Correct. Compare the image at the top of the article ( http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UN25h8GKVw/VgxffFjqvUI/AAAAAAAAAQ... ) to http://electroshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FluxCapa...

Isn't that mostly an accident of the current data center infrastructure and subject to change? If they had waited until, say, EU-East-1 or Asia-East-1 came along they might as well have called it Switzerland.

Re: Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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I want this NOW. Anyone know if they are planning on open-sourcing this project?

Uh...you realize the visualization is probably the easiest part of this tool? Getting realtime insight into your network is the much harder problem, and you will need to implement that all yourself.

Re: Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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cool! but they couldn't have thought of a different name?

They named it flux because it looks like the Flux Capacitor. http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor Perfect name if you ask me :)

I thought this article was a new use-case of FB's Flux initially.

Great name, but perhaps the headline could have read "Netflix Flux: ..." or "Traffic Flux: ..."

Re: Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition

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I want this NOW. Anyone know if they are planning on open-sourcing this project?

Uh...you realize the visualization is probably the easiest part of this tool? Getting realtime insight into your network is the much harder problem, and you will need to implement that all yourself.

Unless you're starting from the ground up...
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