Rebooting the Cloud Platform UX @ Netflix with Polymer
summary
Netflix rebuilds internal UIs with concrete results: uses Polymer and Web Components to produce five distinct apps — Lumen dashboards, Casper cluster health, Keystone pipeline editor, Dynamite Data Explorer, and Winston Studio — with real engineering wins like offloading high-volume websocket processing to Web Workers, streams data from >10,000 Cassandra nodes, virtualized lists that handle about 145 million keys, a reboot CLI that autogenerates docs and versions elements, and an incremental Polymer 2 migration plus experiments integrating Redux for shared state.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 0:22Outline
- 1:07Cloud Platform Engineering
- 10:44Takeaways
- 12:22A Pragmatic Approach
- 12:59Building a Component
- 13:19Reboot CLI
- 13:53Generating API Docs
- 14:40Versioning and Releases
- 15:37Baseline: 1.9.x, everywhere.
- 15:56New Apps
- 17:12Existing Apps: Large, Active
- 18:41Props Down, Events Up
- 19:07Deep Hierarchies
- 19:31Siblings
- 20:40State with Redux
- 21:11Using "polymer-redux"
- 21:44What's next?
