Since 2011, Netflix has been releasing more and more components of their cloud platform and utilities as free and open source software. This session will answer questions about NetflixOSS, including who makes the software, what does it do, where can you get it and learn about it, when is more coming, why does Netflix do this, and how can you do something like this at your company? Apple Keynote version with animations: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4baN-arrqbJUHRZbE1HbmQ3azA/edit?usp=sharing

1. @JoeSondow
Netflix Open Source Software
Who, what, where, when, why, how

2. Who am I?
@JoeSondow

3. Who am I?
@JoeSondow

4. Who am I?
Joe Sondow
@JoeSondow

5. Who am I?
Joe Sondow
Netflix since 2010
@JoeSondow

6. Who am I?
Joe Sondow
Netflix since 2010
Asgard lead
@JoeSondow

7. Who am I?
Joe Sondow
Netflix since 2010
Asgard lead
Grails
@JoeSondow

8. Who am I?
Joe Sondow
Netflix since 2010
Asgard lead
Grails
jQuery
@JoeSondow

9. Open Sourcing Netflix
Software

10. Open Sourcing Netflix
Software
Give it away, give it away, give it away now

11. Open Sourcing Netflix Apps
Who
What
Where
When
Why
How

13. Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network
with nearly 38 million members in 40 countries enjoying
more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies
per month, including original series.
(from http://ir.netflix.com)

14. Who

15. Who
You, maybe?

16. Who

17. Who
Platform Infrastructure

18. Who
Platform Infrastructure
Cloud Database Engineering

19. Who
Platform Infrastructure
Cloud Database Engineering
Cloud Solutions

20. Who
Platform Infrastructure
Cloud Database Engineering
Cloud Solutions
Engineering Tools

21. Who
Platform Infrastructure
Cloud Database Engineering
Cloud Solutions
Engineering Tools
Cloud and Platform Engineering

22. Who
Platform Infrastructure
Cloud Database Engineering
Cloud Solutions
Engineering Tools
Cloud and Platform Engineering
Anyone with code that’s not a competitive advantage

23. What

24. What
Undifferentiated heavy lifting

25. What

26. What

27. What
Infrastructure

28. What
Infrastructure
Caching

29. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database

30. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud

31. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building

32. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment

33. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment
Configuration

34. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment
Configuration
Testing

35. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment
Configuration
Testing
Monitoring

36. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment
Configuration
Testing
Monitoring
Networking

37. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment
Configuration
Testing
Monitoring
Networking
Robustness

38. What
Infrastructure
Caching
Database
Cloud
Building
Deployment
Configuration
Testing
Monitoring
Networking
Robustness
Security

39. Not

40. Not
Streaming
Encoding
Merchandising
Movie metadata
Recommendations
10’ UI

41. What

42. What
If it’s about streaming
video, keep it closed
If it’s about computing,
open source it
When possible, extract
an open computation
system from a closed
Netflix system
Be pragmatic

43. Examples

44. Asgard
Web interface for application deployment and
cloud management in Amazon Web Services

45. Ice
Bird’s-eye view of AWS usage and cost

46. Simian Army
Keeps your cloud operating well. Chaos Monkey,
Janitor Monkey, Conformity Monkey…

47. Hystrix and Turbine
Circuit breakers protect from downstream service
failures, and enable dashboard monitoring

48. Where

49. Where
Take a guess

50. Where
http://netflix.github.io
https://github.com/Netflix
https://netflixoss.ci.cloudbees.com/
http://techblog.netflix.com
https://twitter.com/NetflixOSS
http://meetup.com/Netflix-Open-Source-Platform/
https://youtube.com/NetflixOpenSource

60. When

61. When
Soon

62. When
Average so far: 1.5 new OSS projects per month
AstyanaxServo
Priam
CassJM
eterExhibitor
ArchaiusAsgard
Chaos
M
onkeyEureka
G
overnator
EddaBlitz4j
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2012
HystrixTurbine
Ribbon
NetflixG
raph
JanitorM
onkey
EVCache
RxJavaKaryon
Denom
inator
RSS
Reader
Conform
ity
M
onkey
gcviz
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2013
Isthm
us
Pytheas
Curator
Nov Dec
2011
G
enie
NfW
ebCrypto
G
listen
Ice
Zuul
Am
inator
Lipstick

63. When
Monitoring/Graphing
Deployment canary
analyzer
Web notification widget
Asgard client library
Other things getting
dreamed up
Future Possibilities

64. When
Roll-out schedules
Dependencies
Best practices
Tooling
Guest speakers
Legal
Internal OSS meeting every two weeks

65. Why

66. Why

67. Why
Give back to Apache license OSS community

68. Why
Give back to Apache license OSS community
Motivate, retain, hire top engineers (Did I mention…?)

69. Why
Give back to Apache license OSS community
Motivate, retain, hire top engineers (Did I mention…?)
“Peer pressure” code clean up & documentation

70. Why
Give back to Apache license OSS community
Motivate, retain, hire top engineers (Did I mention…?)
“Peer pressure” code clean up & documentation
External contributions

71. Why
Give back to Apache license OSS community
Motivate, retain, hire top engineers (Did I mention…?)
“Peer pressure” code clean up & documentation
External contributions
Good public relations, more good, less evil

72. Why
Give back to Apache license OSS community
Motivate, retain, hire top engineers (Did I mention…?)
“Peer pressure” code clean up & documentation
External contributions
Good public relations, more good, less evil
Make Netflix solutions into common standards

73. Help your career

74. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years

75. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years
LinkedIn = resume

76. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years
LinkedIn = resume
GitHub = portfolio

77. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years
LinkedIn = resume
GitHub = portfolio
Speak at tech events

78. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years
LinkedIn = resume
GitHub = portfolio
Speak at tech events
Write blog posts

79. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years
LinkedIn = resume
GitHub = portfolio
Speak at tech events
Write blog posts
Tweet

80. Help your career
Statistically, you will probably change jobs in <10 years
LinkedIn = resume
GitHub = portfolio
Speak at tech events
Write blog posts
Tweet
Be googleable

81. Why free as in beer?

82. Why free as in beer?
No significant commitments to external customers

83. Why free as in beer?
No significant commitments to external customers
Avoid distracting complications of charging money

84. Why free as in beer?
No significant commitments to external customers
Avoid distracting complications of charging money
Focus on accomplishing the company’s mission

85. Why free as in beer?
No significant commitments to external customers
Avoid distracting complications of charging money
Focus on accomplishing the company’s mission
The benefits of free exceed the benefits of charging

86. How

87. How

88. How
Internal OSS mailing list

89. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki

90. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings

91. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org

92. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies

93. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration

94. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up

95. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document

96. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document
Licensing and attribution

97. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document
Licensing and attribution
Remove infringement

98. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document
Licensing and attribution
Remove infringement
Write tech blog post

99. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document
Licensing and attribution
Remove infringement
Write tech blog post
Make repo public

100. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document
Licensing and attribution
Remove infringement
Write tech blog post
Make repo public
Tweet on @NetflixOSS

101. How
Internal OSS mailing list
Edit internal OSS wiki
Attend OSS meetings
Make private GitHub
repo in Netflix org
Soften dependencies
Externalize configuration
Clean up
Document
Licensing and attribution
Remove infringement
Write tech blog post
Make repo public
Tweet on @NetflixOSS
Support the community

102. External Config

103. External Config
Externalize Netflix-specific values

104. External Config
Externalize Netflix-specific values
Turn off soft dependencies by default

105. External Config
Externalize Netflix-specific values
Turn off soft dependencies by default
Make extension points for plugins as needed

106. External Config
Externalize Netflix-specific values
Turn off soft dependencies by default
Make extension points for plugins as needed
Put Netflix config in internal SCM
(Perforce or Atlassian Stash)

107. External Config
Externalize Netflix-specific values
Turn off soft dependencies by default
Make extension points for plugins as needed
Put Netflix config in internal SCM
(Perforce or Atlassian Stash)
Jenkins build for open release

108. External Config
Externalize Netflix-specific values
Turn off soft dependencies by default
Make extension points for plugins as needed
Put Netflix config in internal SCM
(Perforce or Atlassian Stash)
Jenkins build for open release
Jenkins build for Netflix release

109. Code Review on GitHub

110. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git

111. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git
GitHub projects are owned by Netflix on master branch

112. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git
GitHub projects are owned by Netflix on master branch
Fork your project

113. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git
GitHub projects are owned by Netflix on master branch
Fork your project
Commit into a feature branch

114. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git
GitHub projects are owned by Netflix on master branch
Fork your project
Commit into a feature branch
Push commits to your fork

115. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git
GitHub projects are owned by Netflix on master branch
Fork your project
Commit into a feature branch
Push commits to your fork
Create a pull request

116. Code Review on GitHub
Learn Git
GitHub projects are owned by Netflix on master branch
Fork your project
Commit into a feature branch
Push commits to your fork
Create a pull request
Get comments, add commits

117. Thank you
@JoeSondow
@NetflixOSS

118. Thank you
Questions?
@JoeSondow
@NetflixOSS