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40,000x Fewer Deployment Failures: How Netflix Adopted Temporal
Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast
17 minutes
4 weeks ago
40,000x Fewer Deployment Failures: How Netflix Adopted Temporal
Netflix reduced their deployment failures by 40,000x using Temporal. In this episode, we break down how they achieved this remarkable improvement and what it means for your platform engineering practice.
In This Episode:- Netflix's deployment reliability problem: 4% failure rate from transient cloud operations- What is durable execution? Write code as if failures don't exist- Temporal vs AWS Step Functions vs Apache Airflow vs Cadence comparison- Netflix's Spinnaker/Clouddriver implementation with 2-hour fix-forward window- When Temporal is (and isn't) the right choice for your organization
Key Stats:- Deployment failures: 4% → 0.0001% (40,000x improvement)- Temporal valuation: $2.5B with 183,000+ weekly active developers- 600% growth in developer adoption over 18 months
Resources:- Netflix Tech Blog: https://netflixtechblog.com/how-temporal-powers-reliable-cloud-operations-at-netflix-73c69ccb5953- Temporal.io: https://temporal.io/- Full show notes: https://platformengineering.org/podcasts/00061-netflix-temporal-deployment-reliability
