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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

By Benson Ma, Alok Ahuja The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. To normalize the diversity of networking environments across both the Netflix and Partner networks and create a consistent and controllable computing environment on which users can run regression and Netflix application certification testing for devices, the Partner Infrastructure team provides a customized embedded computer called the Reference Automation Environment (RAE).

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.”

As such, it is very critical to be able to keep device information up to date for device tests to work properly.