Presentation: Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet
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Netflix's approach to automated code changes across fleet, relevant to platform engineering.
Summary
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer presents an event-driven orchestration platform using composable, Lego-like steps to automate fleet-wide code changes. The system employs automated canary validation, compliance checks, and a custom confidence metric to achieve migration goals of one week (two days for critical vulnerabilities), addressing the problem of maintaining dozens of library versions across a diverse fleet.