[CSENews] Netflix TONIGHT (With Pizza) hosted by ACM: Tuesday, 7pm, 1145 EB

[Teresa Isela VanderSloot]

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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