The document discusses Netflix's real-time data infrastructure called Keystone, which processes over 1 trillion events per day. It describes how Netflix built Keystone over 1 year to handle the massive scale of data from its growing user base and content catalog. Key points include:
- Keystone uses Kafka as its main data backbone to ingest, process and move data across clusters. It has over 3000 instances across 24 Kafka clusters.
- Keystone processes an average of 700 billion unique events per day and 1 trillion total events daily across 1.4 petabytes of data.
- The system was designed based on Netflix's culture of freedom and responsibility and best practices of full automation, self-healing and minimizing single points