gw-12 — References

Netflix migrations (the talks, as migration case studies)

Evolution of Edge @ Netflix / Zuul 2: The Netflix Journey to Async — the Zuul 1→2 migration (gw-03). https://netflixtechblog.com/zuul-2-the-netflix-journey-to-asynchronous-non-blocking-systems-45947377fb5c
Curbing Connection Churn in Zuul — a fleet-wide data-plane behavior migration (gw-04). https://netflixtechblog.com/curbing-connection-churn-in-zuul-2feb273a3598
Pushy to the Limit — re-architecting a stateful fleet + density migration (gw-05). https://netflixtechblog.com/pushy-to-the-limit-evolving-netflixs-websocket-proxy-for-the-future-b468bc0ff658
Managing Netflix's Compute with Kubernetes / Titus — the substrate migration (gw-09). https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3158370
Container Runtime Customization at Netflix (NRI & OCI Hooks) — migrating workloads onto K8s without forking it. https://github.com/containerd/nri

Netflix Kayenta / Automated Canary Analysis (Spinnaker) — the statistical canary-compare that gates ramps. https://github.com/spinnaker/kayenta
Netflix TechBlog — Automated Canary Analysis at Netflix with Kayenta and the sticky-canary posts.
Argo Rollouts / Flagger — open-source progressive delivery (canary, blue-green, analysis, auto-rollback) for Kubernetes.
Envoy request mirroring (request_mirror_policies) — shadow traffic at the data plane (gw-08). https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overview/http/traffic_shadowing

Google SRE Book / Workbook — "Release Engineering," canarying, error budgets governing release velocity, change management. https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/
Accelerate (Forsgren/Humble/Kim) — why small, frequent, reversible changes outperform big-bang.
Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle / Staff Engineer — leading cross-team technical work, design reviews, driving alignment.
Netflix culture deck — "context not control," "highly aligned, loosely coupled," freedom & responsibility (the stakeholder-alignment frame).

Upstream: all of gw-01…gw-11 (the things you migrate and the guardrails that make it safe).
This is the capstone; there is no downstream — it's how the phase ships to production.