Netflix's Cloud Migration & Microservices Adoption

Following a major database corruption incident, Netflix began its ambitious migration from its data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading to a full embrace of microservices architecture to enhance resilience and scalability.

Significance

This massive architectural shift at Netflix created the real-world, large-scale problems of managing hundreds of disparate backend services that necessitated the development of an 'Edge Service' (their internal API Gateway).