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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal.

Today's podcast episode is all about microservices, and I've been super eager to focus only on

this topic on the podcast, since we mentioned it a lot in passing, and I'm really excited

because we finally get to do that.

Our special guest for this topic is Adrian Cockcraft, who helped lead Netflix's migration

to a large-scale, highly available

public cloud architecture a few years ago, making Netflix one of the originators and early adopters

of microservices. And Adrian is widely credited for helping pioneer microservices at web scale.

Also joining the conversation, our A6NZ partners, Martin Casado and Frank Chen, who will be

moderating the discussion.

And in this episode, we cover everything from what is microservices to the evolution

of the architecture, to how it changes the shape of organizations, to operations, to changing

the role of CIOs.

And finally, and this is actually what really excites me the most about this topic, is

what new opportunities come up when you have these extremely ephemeral systems that are,

you know, just like ghosts in the machine, from containers to servers on demand to serverless

and what's happening there and some really interesting trends on that edge. The conversation

begins, however, with the story of how Netflix got into microservices. Take us back to the days when

Netflix had decided they were going to move to Amazon and commit to a microservices architecture.

Let's pick up the story there. So what's it like inside? We started off basically running away from a monolith.

We had over 100 people every two weeks trying to get all the code

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