Our team at Netflix supports a general purpose Compute Platform that powers workloads (networked service applications, batch processing, and interactive services) from across the various aspects of the Netflix business. If something at Netflix uses a computer in the cloud, our team delivers services, support, and technologies to make that…

In growing our Netflix Compute Platform team, I interview management candidates with a focus on understanding how they will likely manage the team. In looking for such a candidate, it is important that they can manage our experienced and senior team of engineers and work well within our Netflix culture…

The Netflix Compute Platform team focuses on the compute primitives required to run both elastic services and fully featured batch. …

Our compute infrastructure service supports Netflix engineering with hundreds of applications running across thousands of servers. I directly manage and have hired the team that designs, develops, operates and supports this service. Our team shares the additional roles of vendor and partner manager, project manager, product manager, and customer relationship…

I last wrote about my feedback in 2018. I write my 2019 feedback summary after being a manager of the Netflix Titus (our container management platform) team for over two and a half years. This year I received feedback from 29 peers across Netflix. As a manager, most of my…

In our container management platform (Titus), we have four big areas of focus across our team. First, we have what most people call “scheduling”, which is actually our entire control plane as well as scheduling. Next, we have our “container execution”, which extends from through Docker, advanced isolation, and container…

I last wrote about this in 2016. At that point, I was an engineer on the Titus project (Netflix’s container management platform). Since then, I have become the engineering manager on the same project. This year, I received feedback from 29 peers across Netflix. Some of these peers are engineers…

Titus is Netflix’s container management platform. Titus includes a sophisticated scheduler based on Apache Mesos that handles not only advanced resource scheduling, but also key operational aspects to manage clusters of over 1000’s of nodes. Titus also has a container runtime based on top of Docker that provides advanced security…

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 card title “Why am I still on-call”). I started to consider writing this when one of my excellent team mates asked me bluntly during…