r/javascript • u/endpointben • Aug 11 '15

Netflix.com Adopts Universal JavaScript, Drops Java From Rendering Pipeline

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/netflix-universal-javascript
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u/freebit Aug 11 '15

I think the biggest news here is the dropping of Java in a company that was plum full of Java developers.

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u/awj Aug 11 '15

They dropped it from the server rendering of their frontend website. No mention of anything else. That part is the tip of the Netflix iceberg, I'm sure there's still boatloads of Java making the service happen.

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u/clarle Aug 12 '15

Many of the rest of Netflix's services are still in Java, but a lot of those services are also open-sourced and very solid.

The Node.js apps communicate with the JVM-based libraries over HTTP through Prana, which is also open-sourced.

The Netflix GitHub organization has the rest of them, as well as a lot of the tools built on AWS that are being used in production today, so definitely check them out!