📊 Performance stats for Netflix
When it was alone on top of the streaming world in 2016...
100,000 instances at peak on AWS with 700+ microservices
Over 30 terabits per second of Internet traffic
SREs played an important role in making sure all of this ticked over smoothly
🤝How SRE fits into the Netflix org and culture
Team formation
SRE team at Netflix is known as CORE (Cloud Operations Reliability Engineering)
Belongs to a larger group known as Operations Engineering
SREs work alongside specialist roles interrelated with SRE work - Performance Engineers, Chaos Engineers etc.
Culture
Culture at Netflix is freedom and responsibility — both are important to effective SRE work