Netflix last night held a meeting with a spa-like headquarters to 200 or more members Clouderati the engineers to develop the infrastructure of computing where the business is run someday. Netflix (NFLX) has a reputation for pushing the boundaries of cloud computing, many businesses are run in the cloud streaming movie rental Amazon.com 's system. And engineers from around Silicon Valley came to hear about the latest and greatest technical staff concocted.When Netflix technology infrastructure, we live in the age of the absurd. Netflix-like Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), Twitter, Yahoo (YHOO), and other Web-celebs open source software that underlies many operations. Put more bluntly, they fought for the right pile of money in the smart engineers, and give their work so that others can build it. Together, all of these companies forge cutting-edge cloud computing technology used by the company in the year of major events come.At, Netflix seem to turbocharge the process. The company has announced $ 100,000 in prizes, $ 10,000 for 10 different awards for volunteer coders to develop an interesting tool based on open-source code Netflix for six months. (The rule here.) Revelation is greeted with gifts of praise is great. Now the race is for people who do not work with Netflix to improve corporate infrastructure.By, all this should happen. Large computing giants such as IBM (IBM), Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), you must set the course for the future of computing. A few years ago, the executives of these companies can organize events and make some broad statements about utility computing wave of new technologies, service-oriented architectures, and auto-management people them seriously and start working. These companies, however, are moving too slowly and think too little. They have a consciousness of what the next generation of computing will look like but can not generate the right or time.The result is that retailers (Amazon (AMZN)), an entertainment company (Netflix), advertisers (Google ( GOOG)), a resume website (LinkedIn), and address book (facebook) ended up shaping the future of infrastructure. This is not to say that every main street businesses require tools to operate on the site. Yet Netflix, for example, pounding on cloud computing services Amazon.com 's to know where the weak points are and what the technology needs to improve. Or LinkedIn developing automated tools to check the health of the software code. All this work is making a solid cloud computing services for the masses is allowed in reasonable then go date.Giving technical intelligence for free and paid volunteer coders makes it perfect for Netflix, says Adrian Cockcroft, a former Sun Microsystems engineer who is now director of cloud computing architecture with Netflix. "We ended up with a good quality code," he said. "And, when it comes to hire people, we can see the people who know our code base and doing interesting things." Netflix has built a large warehouse of open-source cloud computing technology. Tool to install the software package on the server preset Amazon.com 's, reconfigure them, and try them quickly. It has other applications are intentionally trying to wreak havoc on infrastructure in an attempt to find the holes and performance problems. And the code but rather to push the newest and best technology database constraints. Organizations as diverse as the Obama administration and Intel (INTC) has won this package to use in their own operations.Eventually, Netflix would open source the whole instead of releasing cool but other projects "platform." For us to collect the management of the entire cloud system software developers poke and prod and advanced. "What we are hoping that people start eating from one another," says Cockcroft. "We are all building codes to the public here."
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