[ACM-members] NETFLIX Tech Talk TONIGHT (With Pizza) hosted by ACM: Tuesday, 7pm, 1145 EB

[Chris Heuser]

Hello Everyone!


Tonight, at 7pm in 1145 EB, ACM hosts Scott Long, an engineer from Netflix:

Scott Long is a software engineer with 13 years of experience in the
storage and online content industries.  Ever since attending the University
of Michigan in the early 1990's, he has been avid user and advocate of open
source software, and has been a member of the FreeBSD development community
since 2000.  After spending 5 years leading the OS development team at
Yahoo, Scott moved to Netflix in 2012 to help build the world's largest
content delivery network.  Scott graduated from Metropolitan State
University of Denver with a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Operations and
spent a short time in 2011 as a commercial airline pilot.



In his talk, Scott will be discussing the system behind the world's largest
content delivery network. The abstract is below:

Netflix streams over a billion hours of movies and television shows
world-wide every month, representing 33% of North America's prime-time
internet traffic.  To efficiently and cost-effectively move this massive
amount of data, Netflix developed the OpenConnect Appliance, a
FreeBSD-based media streaming and caching device that forms the building
block of our own content delivery network. This talk will discuss the
OpenConnect Appliance hardware and software, challenges faced in balancing
rapid growth with solid engineering, and the importance of open source
software in modern companies.

I'll see you all tonight!

    ---Chris Heuser, ACM President
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