Netflix is a large streaming company with over 75 million members and 42.5 billion hours watched in 2015. The company has thousands of microservices and many tens of thousands of virtual machines across 3 regions worldwide. Netflix open sources much of its cloud platform technologies to get feedback, collaborate with others, and improve proven open source projects for its scale and availability. Open sourcing also helps with recruiting and retention by allowing candidates and engineers to work on the same projects they could at Netflix. Netflix's open source offerings like Spring Cloud and container technologies are widely used both publicly and internally at other large companies.