Redesigning the Netflix API

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/02/redesigning-netflix-api.html

by abraham • 15 years ago

24 7 15 years ago

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dmaz• 15 years ago

Nice to see an absolute scale in number of requests. It seems that the mystery device making 50% of the API calls was introduced or gained Netflix playback in October 2010 :)

timdorr• 15 years ago

Is that mystery device that jumped requests in October the PS3? That's when the disc-free update was released that used the new HTML5 interface. It fits.

kaylarose2• 15 years ago

I would venture it's a combination of disc-free PS3/Wii and the (Sept.) release of the iPhone app.

chedigitz• 15 years ago

The apple tv was also released in October, that could also attribute to the growth.

jbrennan• 15 years ago

It was probably the Canadian launch (late September).

wikyd• 15 years ago

Interesting. I've worked with a lot of 3rd-party APIs and I liked Netflix's the best by far. They stuck to the REST concept the best of the ones I've seen and it made it very easy to start using it and to write a simple wrapper around it. I actually still use it as a reference when I'm building APIs. I hope they don't lose that.

Redesigning the Netflix API

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