Netflix Migration to the Cloud

Perspectives (Oct 10 2010) Cloud Computing

1. This morning I came across an article written by  Sid Anand, an architect at Netflix that is super interesting. I liked it for two reasons: 1) it talks about the move of substantial portions of a high-scale web site to the cloud, some of how it was done, and why it was done, and 2) its gives best practices on AWS SimpleDB usage.   I love articles about how high scale systems work. Some past postings: FriendFeed use of MySQL Facebook Cassandra Architecture and Design Wikipedia Architecture MySpace Architecture and .Net Flickr DB Architecture Geo-Replication at Facebook Scaling at LucasFilms Facebook: Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos Scaling LinkedIn Scaling at MySpace   The article starts off by explaining why Netflix decided to move their infrastructure to the cloud:   Circa late 2008, Netflix had a single data center. This single data center raised a few concerns. As a ... (Read Full Article)

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