Andrew SpykerAndrew’s LinksIn addition to my LinkedIn, a page with links to my previous work.Jan 28, 2023Jan 28, 2023
Andrew SpykerWhat is Netflix Compute?Our team at Netflix supports a general purpose Compute Platform that powers workloads (networked service applications, batch processing…Mar 31, 20212Mar 31, 20212
Andrew SpykerManaging with Context, Not ControlIn growing our Netflix Compute Platform team, I interview management candidates with a focus on understanding how they will likely manage…Sep 4, 2019Sep 4, 2019
Andrew SpykerNetflix Compute Platform and Titus Public LinksThe Netflix Compute Platform team focuses on the compute primitives required to run both elastic services and fully featured batch. The…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Andrew SpykerScaling a Netflix Infrastructure Team and as an Engineering ManagerOur compute infrastructure service supports Netflix engineering with hundreds of applications running across thousands of servers. I…May 28, 20191May 28, 20191
Andrew SpykerThemes from my 2019 360 Peer FeedbackI last wrote about my feedback in 2018. I write my 2019 feedback summary after being a manager of the Netflix Titus (our container…Apr 3, 20191Apr 3, 20191
Andrew SpykerLacking a better name .. Hiring for SREIn our container management platform (Titus), we have four big areas of focus across our team. First, we have what most people call…Mar 25, 20181Mar 25, 20181
Andrew SpykerThemes from my 2018 360 Peer FeedbackI last wrote about this in 2016. At that point, I was an engineer on the Titus project (Netflix’s container management platform). Since…Mar 21, 2018Mar 21, 2018
Andrew SpykerNetflix Titus Public LinksTitus is Netflix’s container management platform. Titus includes a sophisticated scheduler based on Apache Mesos that handles not only…Feb 21, 2018Feb 21, 2018
Andrew SpykerWhy, as a Netflix infrastructure manager, am I on call?The twitter discussions on on-call last week (1, 2) motivated me to write a blog post that’s been in my Trello list for some time (actual…Feb 12, 20185Feb 12, 20185