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Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads

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Summary Phillipa Avery and Robert Reta describe how Netflix successfully launched their Download feature with the use of a Cassandra-backed event sourcing architecture. They describe their event store implementation and cover what they learned along the way, and what they could have done better. Finally, they review some improvements and extensions that they are planning to address going forward.

Bio Phillipa Avery is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, where she works on the playback team to provide the licensing services necessary to stream Netflix content. Robert Reta is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. He has been working on the Playback License team for the past 3 years focusing on the full release cycle of Netflix’s PlayReady applications.

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