This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on architecting for the cloud using the Netflix approach. Some key points:
- Netflix has over 40 million members streaming over 1 billion hours per month of content across over 40 countries.
- Netflix runs on AWS and handles billions of requests per day across thousands of instances globally.
- The presentation will discuss how to build your own platform as a service (PaaS) based on Netflix's open source libraries, including platform services, libraries, and tools.
- The Netflix approach focuses on microservices, automation, and resilience to support rapid iteration on cloud infrastructure.