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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API

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Summary

Ben Christensen describes how Neflix has optimized their API using a functional reactive programming (modeled after Rx) in a polyglot Java stack.

Bio

Ben Christensen is a software engineer on the Netflix API Platform team responsible for fault tolerance, performance, architecture and scale while enabling millions of customers to access the Netflix experience across more than 800 different device types. Prior to Netflix, Ben was at Apple in the iTunes division making iOS apps and media available to the world. Twitter: @benjchristensen

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Apr 19, 2013

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