Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
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#3I don't think anyone on hackernews would be surprised by this. The scale they have to operate at is absolutely insane. To scale flawlessly on day 1 is a big ask of any development team.
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#4To be fair, this wasn't launch day. Disney+ has been around in The Netherlands for quite a while now
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#5Id love some inside baseball on how the big splashy launch vs engineering realities looked during discussions.
Lots of other new services basically end up being able to “take advantage” of being early market entrances or their own obscurity and then scale with growth.
This is a different beast altogether.
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#6do they use kubernetes?
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#7> "Disney has estimated it will need to attract at least 60 million subscribers, putting it on a par with Netflix, in order for Disney+ to break even."
How's that for a barrier to entry? I don't doubt that they will be able to hit it, but it's still a mind-bogglingly high number. I think that's part of why I'd like to see Netflix's continued success - competition is a good thing, and if they were to ever go under I doubt we'd see a replacement.
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#8How can you be unprepared for the load? They would have and should have expected and tested for the load on launch day.
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#9Id love some inside baseball on how the big splashy launch vs engineering realities looked during discussions. Lots of other new services basically end up being able to “take advantage” of being early market entrances or their own obscurity and then scale with growth. This is a different beast altogether.
Remember Disney+ isn't completely new software, Disney acquired MLBtv aka BAMtech to run the site. And their business is live streaming, not "merely" VoD.
Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
#10Id love some inside baseball on how the big splashy launch vs engineering realities looked during discussions. Lots of other new services basically end up being able to “take advantage” of being early market entrances or their own obscurity and then scale with growth. This is a different beast altogether.
Remember Disney+ isn't completely new software, Disney acquired MLBtv aka BAMtech to run the site. And their business is live streaming, not "merely" VoD.
Disney also operates Hulu.