Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition(techblog.netflix.com)
techblog.netflix.com
Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition
http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/10/flux-new-approach-to-system-intuition.html
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For those reading comments first and hoping a title like this means Netflix is finally doing something decent in the way suggestions and not showing the same move/show on multiple sliders on the same page. I.e. it's now got better intuition.. you'll be disappointed.
If your looking for really fancy Netflix network infrastructure stuff, dive right in! They are great at this stuff :-D
If your looking for really fancy Netflix network infrastructure stuff, dive right in! They are great at this stuff :-D
Reminds me of Logstalgia, which was a cool log visualization tool for its time - http://logstalgia.io/
Never had heard of that, thanks!
EDIT: apparently, by the author of Gource(http://gource.io/). That one I had used before.
EDIT: apparently, by the author of Gource(http://gource.io/). That one I had used before.
I want this NOW. Anyone know if they are planning on open-sourcing this project?
I'd be surprised if they did. This seems pretty specific to their kind of high volume traffic business. And to their distributed nature of data and latency management etc. Not sure how applicable it will be to other businesses.
That said, since it is at its core a logging tool of sorts, it's possible that it's decoupled enough to put it out. But that's really stretching it.
That said, since it is at its core a logging tool of sorts, it's possible that it's decoupled enough to put it out. But that's really stretching it.
For a moment there I thought the "pain" suit was real- as it reminded me of this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_se...
A more humane, non-painful version of the suit may be entirely possible!
A more humane, non-painful version of the suit may be entirely possible!
Nice! A few years ago I made a little program like this, called packet flight, to visualize network flows. It's a nice way to see the magic:
https://vimeo.com/17248120
https://vimeo.com/17248120
and yet, they cannot come up with a creative name
Funny you say that. JSX existed as a language that compiles to javascript before Facebook choosed to use that name :
https://github.com/jsx/JSX
and don't get me started on flux,relay or graphQL ...
https://github.com/jsx/JSX
and don't get me started on flux,relay or graphQL ...
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-...
Seems stupid to call it flux
I came here just to confirm that someone would complain about the name.
Surely it's because it looks like a flux capacitor. Seems reasonable to me.
The GP might be referring to the fact that Facebook also has a project called Flux [1].
[1] https://facebook.github.io/flux/
[1] https://facebook.github.io/flux/
Agreed, considering how new and trendy Flux is ... that is a weird name usage.
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.
They should have called it Uterus.
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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 :)
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: ..."
Great name, but perhaps the headline could have read "Netflix Flux: ..." or "Traffic Flux: ..."
Given how crazy creative the netflix team is, it's not a stretch to imagine their next hackathon. Put this on a big screen and sit in front of it. Throw in a few hazard lights and a siren and music that plays automatically the moment there's a failure and it's a done deal.
Side note: If you want to get a better understanding of what you are reading, the inline linked article[1] is a must read
Also, I actually thought the pain suit was a real thing for a moment. Well played Netflix. Well played.
[1]http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgrad...