As the comment at the end of the article mentioned, they forgot to add Spring. I've met a few Netflix engineers, and they said their Java implementation is done using Spring.
No, it's not. It's primarily Google Guice via Governator.
hey Steven! Thanks. Do you have any links that reference this? We want it to be as accurate as possible.
No links, I got this from actually talking with some engineers. Have you not contacted a single Netflix engineer to verify your article? If not, I find that bizarre.