While we are reluctant to recommend wholesale adoption of the Netflix OSS Full Stack unless you happen to be entering the globally distributed video streaming business, the stack is chock full of interesting ideas, complete with open source implementations. Some of the tools, Asgard for example, are highly coupled into a virtually turnkey architecture, making them challenging to use individually. Other tools like Ice and Hystrix, which we featured on the radar previously, can be used stand-alone. We think teams should understand the ideas and approaches encapsulated within the tools even when they choose not to leverage the full stack.