This site contains my thoughts on performance tools, cloud architecture and capacity planning since 2004. It also covers anything else I find interesting, like cars, iPhone apps, and strange complex music... I don't post here often, but I tweet a lot @adrianco Friday, December 30, 2011 How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation #defrag 2011 presentation script. I'm the cloud architect for Netflix, but rather than tell you about why we moved Netflix to a cloud architecture or how we built our cloud architecture, I'm going to tell you what we do differently at Netflix to create a culture that supports innovation. What is it that lets us get things done very quickly. Sometimes a bit too qwikly.... but how did we keep making big strategic moves, from DVD to streaming, from Datacenter to Public Cloud, from USA only to International, all in very short timescales with a fairly small team of engineers. My presentation slides are just box-shots of movies and TV shows that are available on Netflix streaming. This script is based on the notes I made to figure out what I was going to say for each box shot. If some of you see a show you didn't know we had and want to watch that would make me happy, you can click on the box shot to visit that movie at Netflix, they were all available for streaming in the USA at the time of writing. I've attempted to match the box shots loosely