Netflix’s Pushy: Evolution of Scalable WebSocket Platform That Handles 100Ms Concurrent Connections
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Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented numerous improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.
Pushy is a vital part of an ecosystem of services that delivers notification messages to the Netflix app running on various devices, including TVs, game consoles, mobile phones, and web browsers. This part of Netflix’s platform has been around for some years, and Susheel Aroskar talked about Zuul Push at QCon New York 2018, discussing motivations, goals, and the initial design.
In a recent blog post, Karthik Yagna, Baskar Odayarkoil, and Alex Ellis, software engineers at Netflix, discussed the historical growth in the usage of Pushy and the need to modernize the platform:
