Netflix are pioneers in microservice architecture. They were the first to successfully implement microservice architecture on a large scale. They also helped increase its popularity and contributed immensely to microservices by open sourcing most of their microservice tools with Netflix Open Source Software Center (OSS).
According to the Netflix blog, when Netflix was developing their platform, they used Apache Cassandra for data storage, which is an open source tool from Apache. They started contributing to Cassandra with fixes and optimization extensions. This led to Netflix seeing the benefits of releasing Netflix projects with the name OSS.
Spring took the opportunity to integrate many Netflix OSS projects, such as Zuul, Ribbon, Hystrix, the Eureka server, and Turbine, into Spring Cloud. This is one of the reasons...