As we all know, Netflix is a famous streaming video platform and generator of its own content, as we have seen in recent times, when they have been betting more and more heavily on series and documentaries created by the company itself instead of simply buying third party content. The platform has become the most successful, surpassing Amazon Prime Video services and also HBO.
Well, from now on, the content management system of Netflix will be open source. The Californian company announced that it had created its own content management system, Titus, which is open source. Good news for developers looking for a solution that can be integrated with Amazon Web Services, as well as good news for the community who can now access and benefit from the code generated for Titus.
As for what Netflix thinks about this launch that we have known just a few days ago, they have commented that: «Titus enhances critical aspects of the Netflix businessFrom video streaming, recommendations and machine learning, big data, content encoding, studio technology, internal engineering tools, and other Netflix workloads.«. The new Titus aims to become a benchmark for content management systems.
Netflix has also commented on the reason for launching it as open source, and it is due to the demand of developers. This will satisfy them whether they are from large companies or independent developers. Sharing the source code of Titus will accelerate development and bring all the lessons learned about this technology also to community, that is to say, we all come out winning. They are nourished by the community and the community of this release, so let's hope that this type of news does not stop ...