{"id":737399,"date":"2013-02-06T23:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=608325"},"modified":"2013-02-06T23:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:03:56","slug":"netflix-to-developers-more-monkeys-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/737399","title":{"rendered":"Netflix to developers: More monkeys to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a fan of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey<\/a>, stay tuned — there’s a lot more where that came from. And a few hundred developers showed up for \u00a0Netflix’ open source open house Tuesday <\/a>night to get a sneak peak of more tools to come.<\/p>

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Full house at Netflix open source open house.<\/p><\/div>

The company, which famously relies on Amazon Web Services to do “undifferentiated heavy lifting,” as Netflix cloud architect Adrian Cockroft described it, really wants people to deploy its components together. That’s why it continues to put the source code for these tools on Github<\/a>\u00a0why it hosts open houses and meetups focused on its tools and components.<\/p>

And it’s very interested in getting other, non-AWS cloud vendors to kick the tires of these tools and, ideally, deploy them. Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus, was in the crowd and I’m told many of the OpenStack players are here as well.<\/p>

Netflix would really, really like folks to use many of its tools together. “While the parts are cool and shiny, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” \u00a0Ruslan Meshenberg, director of cloud platform engineering, told attendees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

So what’s coming from Netflix? Some quick hits:<\/p>