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Going FaaSter: Function as a Service at Netflix - Yunong Xiao, Netflix

1,382 views · Published 5 November 2018 · 30:52 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: node.js · 2018 · Science & Technology

The FaaS revolution is taking the world by storm. Customers love the no-ops and ergonomics of this new paradigm. They enable a revolution in developer velocity, allowing engineers to deploy code to production much faster than before. At Netflix, these features are a perfect fit for the Netflix API Platform, which provides engineers the ability to write and deploy tier-1 services using JS without having to manage infrastructure or operations. However, there are trade-offs to consider. Most offerings today are great for latency intensive tasks, but not for fully fledged services that need to be latency sensitive, reliable, and elastically scalable. Learn about the architecture and internals of Netflix’s JS FaaS platform, which lets engineers deploy JS functions as production services, capable of delivering latency-sensitive services right in the heart of every request to Netflix.

About Yunong Xiao
Yunong is Principal Software Engineer at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA. He's currently leading the design and architecture of the Netflix API Platform. He's spent stints of his career at AWS and Joyent, where he worked on distributed systems and helped to shape and build several cloud computing products such as AWS IAM and Manta. He also maintains the open source Node.js framework restify. Yunong received a BaSc with honors in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Yunong has previously spoken at many conferences, including QCon, Fluent, Node Interactive, Node Summit, and Node Conf

Going FaaSter: Function as a Service at Netflix - Yunong Xiao, Netflix

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