Netflix began streaming services with a small-scale microservice ecosystem. As our global reach grew, so did the complexity of the underlying ecosystem. Membership Lifecycle Ecosystem is a cluster of services that handles all the backend business logic related to membership, signup, billing, and payments. This ecosystem consists of 100+ internal microservices and a similar number of external partners and payment processors - spanning across multiple teams. Each team has an asynchronous release cadence and the quality of each release has a direct impact on the quality of the ecosystem and...
Helena Song
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Netflix Inc.
Helena Song has over 20 years of experience in test automation, test tool development, and continuous integration (CI) in the internet software service domain. In the past 10 years, she focused on solving test automation and CI challenges in the microservices domain. During this endeavor, she learned a lot of valuable and practical lessons around test principles and testing patterns for large-scale microservices eco-systems. She is currently a member of Netflix’s Payments Engineering team. Senior Software Engineer in Test, [email protected]