Comments on: Netflix wants open-source developers, cloud alternatives

By: Alexey Semeney

Alexey Semeney — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:36:41 +0000

Open-source developers are not cloud alternatives, they just developers. And don’t forget about MS Windows Azure – they will overtake Amazon very soon.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:06:55 +0000

Chris, so do you think that internal IT staff can create a better cloud than AWS? I doubt it. So you are trading one problem for another. I think the solution is that AWS needs to take some pages out of Netflx’s book because the Christmas issue seems like it could have been prevented if they had (read AWS’ accessment and Netflix’s and then the Jan 4 techblog post)

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:03:27 +0000

Thx Adrian. I have not been to the bay area (Sunnyvale, etc) since I was in the AF in the early 90′s. From what I remember, I did like the weather. Not so much the traffic. :)

By: adrian cockcroft

adrian cockcroft — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:09:13 +0000

Netflix has a public cloud only strategy, there are other companies who are already using parts of the NetflixOSS platform for private clouds, and companies who want to help make that easier by porting more of the platform. Part of what we are doing is creating an ecosystem to support those activities.

If you’d like to move to the Bay Area, Netflix generally pays better than the big companies we’re competing with, and the local cost of living usually isn’t an obstacle.

Someone figured out how to run Netflix on Linux desktop recently by bundling some Windows compatible components. It’s a tiny market, so there was no business case to support it directly. Netflix has contributed heavily to open source over the last years. That’s a much more useful payback.

Also I have no idea what Alan above is talking about.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:07:59 +0000

BE CAREFUL DEVELOPERS

Netflix Engineering have the bad reputation to take your ideas and intellectual property and then make it “Open Source”.

All the former “partners” I know that made “business” with Netflix ends they short-term agreements really, really upset and end tagged as “competitors”.

This practice also apply to engineers who got interviewed by Netflix.

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

Not so surprising after their challenges during the holidays. It is not a secure business that can be disrupted intentionally or otherwise by their biggest competitor. We wrote up this problem on Christmas Day as “How the Amazon Grinch stole Netflix’s Christmas.”

http://successfulworkplace.com/2012/12/25/how-the-amazon-grinch-stole-netflixs-christmas/

Interestingly, there may be a push for public/private (or hybrid) cloud for Netflix and others in the same position. Cover expectations with private cloud and only surges with public.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:57:47 +0000

I wish they could/would expand this beyond Los Gatos. Not only are they up against the other companies in that area for talent, they are up against high cost of living, etc. I looked at their job listings over the weekend. But when i saw they were all California based … . At least they were not LA.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:12:16 +0000

For a company that has benefited so heavily from years of work from open source developers, they have made surprisingly little effort to support streaming on an open source desktop environment.

By: Ali Liaquat

Ali Liaquat — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:26:22 +0000

Well, this was predictable. Netflix, after facing some major cloud service outages in 2012 ranging from 2-4 hours affecting millions of users. Btw, this article also talks about the same story: http://www.dincloud.com/blog/cloud-computing-industry-perspectives-2012