Episode 13
restify at Netflix with Yunong Xiao
Software Engineering Daily · softwareengineeringdaily.com
July 31, 201550m 27s
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Show Notes
restify is a node.js module built to enable correct REST web services. Netflix uses restify to gain performance and visibility.
Yunong Xiao, senior engineer at Netflix, talks about the incident which incited Netflix’s service migration to restify. The discussion starts with an explanation of flame graphs and evolves into a conversation about restify, and the importance of choosing the correct RESTful API.
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