Add an eventBuilding Cloud Tools for Netflix
A session at GR8 US 2012
Asgard (formerly the Netflix Application Console or NAC) is a Grails application used by Netflix engineers to deploy code changes and manage resources in the Amazon cloud on a massive scale. This presentation will include slides and discussion about aspects of Asgard from both the user and developer points of view. In this two hour session, Joe will cover as many of the following topics as possible:
- The Netflix cloud model of Applications and Clusters built on top of Amazon building blocks
- Asgard's process for large deployments and fast rollback
- Comparison with the AWS Management Console
- Tour of the user interface
- Publishing a JSON REST API for other tools to call Asgard
- Enhancing Grails URLs to add region-specificity
- Using external configuration to pull Netflix-specific details out of Asgard
- Open sourcing Asgard on GitHub in 2012
- Storing metadata on cloud objects instead of a database
- Using closures to help cache massive cloud metadata for multiple Amazon regions
- Tango open source icons to improve the user experience
- JavaScript filters for large list pages and drop-downs
- Mocking the AWS back-end for offline automated testing
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Professional: Grails and jQuery at Netflix for Asgard, an open source cloud management app. Fun: Dancing, comics, TV, gaming, space, robots, cocktails, karaoke. bio from Twitter
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