Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads

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Phillipa Avery and Robert Reta describe how Netflix successfully launched their Download feature with the use of a Cassandra-backed event sourcing architecture. They describe their event store implementation and cover what they learned along the way, and what they could have done better. Finally, they review some improvements and extensions that they are planning to address going forward.