Netflix operates a large content delivery network (CDN) to stream video to over 50 million subscribers globally. To reduce costs and improve performance, Netflix built its own CDN called OpenConnect, using open source software like FreeBSD and Nginx. Netflix has significantly improved the performance of OpenConnect over time by contributions to open source projects, such as reducing locking contention and improving networking, storage, and virtual memory subsystems. Netflix aims to continue optimizing OpenConnect and working with open source communities to achieve its goal of over 80Gbps performance per appliance.