The Power of Replication in the Cloud

Adrian: We were running about 10 gigabits per second of replication traffic for a while, which wasn't too bad. But anyway, it turned out we had without doing anything to anything we'd got, we had at least 10 times more capacity than we needed to do it. Adrian: The ability to do that in the cloud by just firing stuff up in a few hours was revolutionary. Netflix could have taken the view that this is intellectual property because it sets Netflix apart from other competitors. Instead decided to open source it and really bring about a lot of the acceleration in folks moving into AWS.