Engineering Tools at Netflix: Enabling Continuous Delivery

Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/) is world renown for building a resilient, scalable services in the cloud. Continuously delivering services to the cloud requires automation, a fast pace culture and a robust automation infrastructure. The Netflix Engineering Tools team develops solutions that codify best practices for building/deploying Cloud-native services. Many of these solutions have been open sourced as part of Netflix OSS (http://netflix.github.io/). Come hear about Netflix open source tools, techniques and challenges of building a continuous delivery platform for the cloud.

Mike McGarr (http://www.mikemcgarr.com/about.html) is the Engineering Manager for the Netflix Build Tools team. He has been developing Java/JVM-based applications for most of his career and been known to dabble in other languages as well. He is passionate about building quality software through automation. Mike (https://twitter.com/jmichaelmcgarr) can frequently be found talking about Agile,Continuous Delivery, DevOps, or build and test automation. Prior to joining Netflix, Mike was the Director of Engineering Tools at Blackboard and the founder of the DC Continuous Delivery (http://www.meetup.com/DC-continuous-delivery) meetup.

Here are some of the Netflix open source projects we'll be talking about:
Nebula - https://github.com/nebula-plugins
Aminator - https://github.com/Netflix/aminator
Asgard - https://github.com/Netflix/asgard
SimianArmy - https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy

Agenda:

• 6:30pm Food & Networking (w/ Pizza & Drinks sponsored by Ravello)

7:00pm Welcome & Announcements

• 7:10pm Mike McGar (http://www.mikemcgarr.com/about.html) will talk about Netflix's tools and how to enable continuous delivery

• 8:00pm Q&A