How can you be unprepared for the load? They would have and should have expected and tested for the load on launch day.
I also think a glitch in the launch day counts as 100 glitches on any other day.
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#12> "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 d…
Likely a calculation of break-even with lost licensing revenue. The Disney+ adventure is a risk because you're foregoing easy licensing money for hard product money, and gambling that it'll be worth it.
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#13The Mouse must flow.
Seriously tho, I'd imagine this was a heck of a big lift.
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#14Interesting, it worked great for me last night (west coast US) on an Apple TV. The video quality is great (I’m watching on a nice 4K HDR TV) and seems to load impossibly fast when I scrub through a video.
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#15I 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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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ah that explains it. they must have put their UI/UX people in charge of infra
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#18do they use kubernetes?
apparently not at launch https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1194150447604355072
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#19do they use kubernetes?
I could only find something about them generally using kubernetes (from 2017) https://www.linux.com/news/how-disney-realizing-multi-cloud-...
Is there any recent article discussing the tech behind Disney+ specifically?
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#20Id 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.
BAMTech has had high volume days, obviously, but on reflection I couldn't think of any service launch they powered that'd be bigger than this. WWE, HBO relaunch, NHL, MLB -- none seem likely to generate as much demand as this.