🚀Microservices offer many benefits, but they also come with certain costs.
🔄Netflix migrated to microservices as part of their transition to the cloud.
💪Stateless services are preferred, allowing for scalability and failure resilience.
🐵Chaos Monkey is used to test the resilience of the system by introducing failures in production.
📈Netflix chose Cassandra as their primary key-value storage for scalability and open-source flexibility.
What triggered Netflix's migration to microservices?
—The need to move to the cloud and the realization that a monolithic system was not ideal for scalability and reliability.
How did Netflix ensure the resilience of their microservices?
—They conducted destructive testing, including introducing failures in production and running Chaos Monkey to verify the system's ability to handle failures.
Why did Netflix choose Cassandra as their primary storage?
—Cassandra offered scalability, open-source flexibility, and the ability to handle the high traffic and data demands of Netflix's streaming service.
What are the benefits of stateless services?
—Stateless services allow for easy scalability and failure resilience, as they can be distributed across multiple instances and do not rely on a single point of failure.
How did Netflix handle data migration during their transition to microservices?
—Netflix worked on multi-regional, multi-directional replication in Cassandra to facilitate data migration and ensure data availability during the transition.
00:21Netflix migrated to microservices as part of their transition to the cloud.
01:18Stateless services were preferred for scalability and resilience.
08:11Chaos Monkey was introduced for destructive testing in production.
09:58Netflix chose Cassandra as their primary key-value storage.
10:56Destructive testing was conducted daily to verify system resilience.
