213 RR Team Dynamics, API Design, and System Resiliency with Daniel Jacobson of Netflix

 02:25 - Daniel Jacobson Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog
• SlideShare
• LinkedIn
• Netflix
  • @netflix
  • Netflix Techblog
  • Netflix GitHub

02:46 - How Netflix Looks at Programming and Development Team

• Context and Control
• Freedom and Responsibility
  • Netflix: Freedom & Responsibility Culture (Version 1)
  • Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility (Version 2)  
• Amazon AWS
• JVM (Java Virtual Machine)
• “Specialties”

05:03 - Maintaining a Consistent Culture

• Setting Context

06:37 - Onboarding Process

08:15 - Engineering spirals: 10 philosophies to facilitate innovation

• Introspection
• Transformations:
  • Staffed Up
  • Solving the Resiliency Problem
    • hystrix

15:04 - Making Space for Innovation

• Building Expectations
• Incrementing Deliverables
• Building Trust and Confidence         
• Maintenance Mode

23:12 - APIs

• Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night
• API Orchestration Layers (Separation of Concerns)
  • Gather
  • Format
  • Deliver

29:32 - Solving Real Problems, The Groovy Layer

• The Groovy Programming Language

31:34 - hystrix and Patterns for Making Systems Resilient

• Chaos Monkey
• SimianArmy
• Event Isolation
  • ReactiveX

39:14 - RxJava

41:17 - The Dynamic of Senior Engineers

Screening Process

44:02 - Conway's Law

47:44 - Best and Most Challenging Parts About Working for Netflix

• Scaling and Maintaining 

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