A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer

Dive into the world of large-scale software engineering at Netflix in this 48-minute conference talk from YOW! 2015. Join Dave Hahn, Senior Engineer at Netflix's Operations & Reliability Engineering team, as he provides an in-the-trenches look at operating at Netflix scale. Explore the company's ecosystem, which includes hundreds of production changes every hour, thousands of microservices, and millions of concurrent customers. Learn about Netflix's approach to innovation velocity, expected failures, high availability, and engineer responsibility. Discover why the company values freedom, responsibility, trust, and even embraces chaos. Gain insights into how Netflix obsesses over customer experience quality and manages billions of metrics every minute. This talk offers a unique perspective on the complexities and challenges of maintaining a massive, ever-changing software infrastructure.