How Netflix Really Uses Java

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Video with transcript included on InfoQ: bit.ly/49MJha8
Paul Bakker discusses Netflix’s use of Java, emphasizing the use of microservices, RxJava, Hystrix and Spring Cloud.
#Java #Netflix #Microservices
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[@illyam689]

Now every company will think to have the same problems as Netflix and will copy this exact architecture :D

[@abdullahimran542]

Really good to listen to people who knows what they're doing.

[@BtXFWkyZBtXFWkyZ]

who know* It's plural

[@user-xg5oq2ks6z]

Primeagen never mentioned that Java is used at Netflix

[@Kunal-k-u-m-a-r]

he is not the only employee at netflix

[@PhucNguyen-yv8pg]

Actually he did say Netflix uses java in his DSA course

[@ricardopieper11]

He did say multiple times they use Java at Netflix, he even worked with Groovy at some point.

[@Gohel95]

Thank you for the great session

[@Dom-zy1qy]

Really interesting talk, but I really wasn't expecting *everything* to be java across netflix. Although I can imagine that comes with a lot of benefits when working on such a large product.

[@illyam689]

They only tell you what they want you to know, so maybe they have other workloads running on different stacks. Nevertheless, the stability of a well crafted Java-based system is hardly unparalleled

[@carnelyve866]

Java is unbeatable for serious programming.

[@simonmassey8850]

I would have been *devastated* if I had joined them when they were still on Java 8. You expect as much from the most legacy enterprises. Having been working at a few banks using Java 11 and 17 with several thousand developers hearing that Netflix was “all in” on legacy is… 😮

[@illyam689]

I wouldn't be surprised if some legacy systems still run on Java

[@jgoodman75]

@@illyam689 uh....ya....imagine that....those poor guys *quietly exits room*

[@arhyth]

for a second i thought i was listening to erik meijer :)

[@mayikx]

❤❤❤

[@StingSting844]

This was quite hard to understand. Had to rewatch with subs

[@valboolin3538]

Дегтярёв

[@gogira]

jafa

[@johnkucharsky6927]

Java invented golang?

[@frederickhu3906]

kotlin not golang

[@era2755]

If they were really concerned about system resources, they wouldn't use Java in the first place.

[@BB-uy4bb]

Thats a stupid comment. It’s a trade of like everything, certainly you can improve resources usage if you go e.g. on c++, but creating and maintaining 3k c++ microservices is nearly impossible, while spring boot is a widely used, easy to develop and maintain, stable and still has a decent performance

[@arjitmishra100]

what a stupid take. Majority of Apache big data library are in java. Kafka is in java. Writing bad programs is not java specific.

[@gammalgris2497]

If you care for specific code properties then you should be careful which libraries and frameworks you use. In the worst case you have to ditch the one or other and make your own according to your specific requirements.

[@bigdlamz]

Junk architecture

[@illyam689]

what did Java to you?

[@bdub884]

Script kiddie located

[@heljhumenad]

hahah when you can't do what they are doing you just fallback to trashtalk. :)