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> not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests Yes, this is the basis of our society. I work for money to buy things, mostly from corporations. There's nothing nefarious about that. I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.
Some people think that it doesn't cost anything to make movies/TV.
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mentioning cdn would be akin to a car review magazine mentioning ABS in an article and then dedicated a couple sentences explaining what ABS is
Hmm I dont know what CDN or ABS are.
Anti-lock Braking System
Both are exactly what they sound like
> The advantage of having three regions is that any one region can fail, and the other regions will step in handle all the members in the failed region. At a previous employer, we met with AWS engineers who told us that this sort of thinking wasn't correct. Availability zones are for failure tolerance. Regions are conceptually different and for things like moving compute closer to clients, mitigating political instab…
The Netflix client/SDK was configured to contact 3 different regions. I'm guessing somehow, on the backend, it was replicating the state of your request to the other three regions. If one regions were to fail, the client would query the other two regions and regain its state.
Having 3 regions available - the other two should be able to pick up the load of losing one without hitting capacity.
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You can't survive as an ISP if you don't have GGC nodes or directly peered with google DC. If your customer wants to watch youtube videos and you serve them through internet only, which will either mean you will have to buy more BW (not financially sustainable) or you will have to cap youtube traffic resulting in inferior user experience and a customer leaving your service. Or just ban youtube - might as well stop ru…
> You can't survive as an ISP if you don't have GGC nodes or directly peered with google DC. Believe me, you can. Deutsche Telekom, Germany's AT&T and Europe's biggest ISP, does this and in the evening YouTube videos regularly stutter on FullHD. But the customers just don't care enough.
> The advantage of having three regions is that any one region can fail, and the other regions will step in handle all the members in the failed region. At a previous employer, we met with AWS engineers who told us that this sort of thinking wasn't correct. Availability zones are for failure tolerance. Regions are conceptually different and for things like moving compute closer to clients, mitigating political instab…
> I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing. You know old time journalists had a solution to this. Interviewing subjects with first hand knowledge. I know I rag on highscalability a lot, but I feel like they deserve it. They've written multiple articles a…
Hi Jeremy, I'm very sorry if I've misquoted you or quoted you out of context. I'd certainly correct them instantly if contacted. I've searched my email and I don't see any corrections, so I'm not sure how I can make amends. I pull a lot of quotes from a lot of sources. Many thousands a year. My goal is always to highlight ideas that I think might help readers do their job better. Highlight is they key word here. That…