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Main event hasn’t even started yet. Traffic will probably 10x for that. They’re screwed. Should have picked something lower profile to get started with live streaming.
I don’t work in tech. Is this something that engineers could respond to and reallocate resources to fix mid stream?
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Amazon Prime front page includes currently a lot of ads for movies that you can rent or ”buy”. Are you sure these movies weren’t them?
This is my biggest issue with Prime Video. You never know what's included and what costs extra.
I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.
It's more likely that you are bad at managing, growing and motivating your team.
Even if it was true, to refer to your team in this way makes you look like you are not ready for management.
Your duty is to get the most out of the team, and that mindset won't help you.
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I wonder how effective it would be to cache live events with a delay. Write to the tail, read from the head.
that’s totally unacceptable for live sports which people are able to bet on
I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically. This sure do…
Not the same demographic but their last large attempt at live was through a Love is blind reunion. It was the same thing, millions of people logging in, epic failure, nothing worked. They never tried to do a live reunion again. I suppose they should have to get the experience. Because they are hitting the same problems with a much bigger stake event.
That's the plain-text message I see when I tried to refresh the stream.
Follow-up:
My location: East SF Bay.
Now even the Netflix frontpage (post login, https://www.netflix.com/browse ) shows the same message.
The same message even in a private window when trying to visit https://www.netflix.com/browse
The first round of the fight just finished, and the issues seem to be resolved, hopefully for good. All this to say what others have noted already, this experience does not evoke a lot of confidence in Netflix's live-streaming infrastructure.
Looks like I’m playing Tysons Punchout right now
I'm watching the event as I'm writing this. I've been needing to exit the player and resume it constantly. Pretty surprising that Netflix hasn't weeded out these bugs.
It's been fine since 11:00 EST, I wonder if they started using the CDN more effectively and pushed everyone back a few minutes?