Netflix: The Future of Durable Execution Across Team and Namespace Boundaries

Abstract

Netflix uses Temporal to orchestrate cloud operations for Spinnaker, a multi-cloud continuous delivery platform, which includes dozens of cloud operations written for various cloud providers. Netflix also uses Temporal to orchestrate myriad other infrastructure control planes across the business including real-time data infrastructure, online datastores, and CDNs.

Netflix aims to allow each team to own their own namespace and call in each other to build abstractions on top of each other’s workflows. When a durable execution spans teams, you often want to delegate a portion of the overall workflow to another team with workflows running in a different namespace, but want a clean service contract that doesn’t share too much.

Previously, this required building custom API proxies and webhooks to facilitate cross-namespace collaboration. Teams had to handle complex tasks like setting up authentication and authorization (AuthZ), ensuring security, and managing cross-namespace failover scenarios. This was a lot of undifferentiated heavy lifting that could be simplified.

In this session you will learn about the future of a fully integrated Temporal experience. Discover how new enhancements will simplify durable execution across team and namespace boundaries, making collaboration easier and more efficient.

About the Presenters

Rob Zienert is a lead software engineer for InfraAPI, the infrastructure management control plane for Netflix. He works with teams across the company to solve the challenges of infrastructure management through the lens of Kubernetes and Temporal.

Phil is a Sr. Staff Product Manager at Temporal where he is working on durable execution in multi-team environments. Phil previously led Product for the core platform at Apollo GraphQL including Apollo Federation and the Apollo Router, a high-performance supergraph runtime. Phil’s past roles at Upbound working on Crossplane, Chef, and HPE bring over two decades of experience with a mix of open source and enterprise in dev tooling, control planes, and infrastructure as a service. Phil also enjoys skiing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.

Roey is a Tech Lead at Temporal, working on open-source software. He contributes to the Temporal server and SDK codebases. With over fifteen years of experience in the Israeli tech industry, Roey has held pivotal roles in various startups, leading the development of backend and frontend applications, and creating developer tools. Outside of his professional life, Roey is a metal drummer, a hobbyist game developer, and enjoys spending quality time with his family.