The Infoq Podcast

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Haley Tucker, a Senior Software Engineer on the Playback Features team at Netflix. While at QCon San Francisco 2016, Tucker told some production war stories about trying to deliver content to 65 million members. Why listen to this podcast: - Distributed systems fail regularly, often due to unexpected reasons - Data canaries can identify invalid metadata before it can enter and corrupt the production environment - ChAP, the Chaos Automation Platform, can test failure conditions alongside the success conditions - Fallbacks are an important component of system stability, but the fallbacks must be fast and light to not cause secondary failures - Distributed systems are fundamentally social systems, and require a blameless culture to be successful Notes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/2hqzQ6K 2m:05s - The Video Metadata Service aggregates several sources into a consistent API consumed by other Netflix services. 2m:43s - Several checks and validatio