Comments Off on Presentation : Redesigning the Netflix API – OSCON 2011

By daniel_jacobson, July 27, 2011 11:36 pm

This presentation was original given at OSCON in July, 2011. It was my first OSCON presenting on behalf of Netflix.

The Netflix API was originally launched 3 years ago to expose Netflix metadata and services to developers and build applications. It now handles over 1 billion requests per day from over 20,000 developers and 13,000 applications. However, Netflix has undergone many business changes and the API needs to be redesigned to focus on its core streaming business and support international growth. The new design will build a scalable data distribution pipeline to deliver customized, optimized metadata and services to each streaming client and platform. It will use wrappers and response handlers to customize the response for each device and isolate problems. This will allow faster development and reduce the need for versioning across many client types and interfaces.