Open Connect is Netflix’s custom global content delivery network(CDN). To send push notifications, Netflix use distributed messaging queue.ġ0. The data coming out of the Stream Processing Pipeline can be persistent to other data stores such as AWS S3, Hadoop HDFS, Cassandra, etc.ĩ. Microservices can send events for tracking user activities or other data to the Stream Processing Pipeline for either real-time processing of personalized recommendations or batch processing of business intelligence tasks.Ĩ.

Microservices can save or get data from a data store during this process.ħ. Microservices are mostly stateless small programs, there can be thousands of these services communicating with each other.Ħ. Play API will call a microservice or a sequence of microservices to fulfill the request.ĥ. In this scenario, the Play request gets handled by the Play API.Ĥ. The heart of Netflix's operations is the Application API component, with various APIs for things like signing up or providing video recommendations. Netflix uses Zuul as its API gateway, which is built to allow dynamic routing, traffic monitoring, and security, resilience to failures at the edge of the cloud deployment.ģ. AWS ELB will forward that request to the API Gateway Service. Netflix uses Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service to route traffic to its services.Ģ.

The Client sends a Play request to a Backend running on AWS. The figure below is an overview of Netflix's backend.ġ. This kind of setup helps deliver large, complex applications quickly and reliably. Netflix's backend consists of a bunch of micro-services collaborating in a loosely coupled fashion.

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