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These secondary streams might be serving a couple thousand users at best.
Initial estimates are in the hundreds of millions for Netflix. Kind of a couple of orders of magnitude difference there.
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Comments on forums do not provide that data. And if you want to extrapolate self-reports, it's obviously fine (to varying degrees) for the vast majority of people, but that's not the "issue." These kind of reports are the equivalent of saying "I have power" when you're hundreds of miles away from where a hurricane landed. It's uninteresting, it's likely you have power, and it does literally nothing for people that do…
You’re in a fucking thread about people commenting in a forum about an outage that may or may not have been caused by Netflix
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…
Netflix is good only on streaming ready made content, not live streaming, but; 1. Netflix is a 300B company, this isn't a resources issue. 2. This isn't the first time they have done live streaming at this scale either. They already have prior failure experience, you expect the 2nd time to be better, if not perfect. 3. There were plenty of time between first massive live streaming to second. Meaning plenty of time to…
Hell, I’d complaing about Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson as well if I was a boxing fan. Even without buffering issues
It will never not annoy and amuse me that illegal options (presumably run by randoms in their spare time) are so much better than the offerings of big companies and their tech ‘talent’.
Illegal options would have lot less active users. So it is not a fair comparison
Can Mike Judge please stop predicting everything?
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They must have try to do this on the cheap, thinking they could dynamically scale on the fly for this. Big mistake.
This is a total supposition without any proof.
I wouldn't be surprised if lots of engineers at Netflix are currently now writing up a length post mortem of this.
And this is from the company that created the discipline of chaos engineering for resilience.
It is clear they under invested and took the eye of the ball with this.
This is bad, like very very bad.
On a few forum sites I'm on, people are just giving up. Looking forward to the post-mortem on how they weren't ready for this (with just a tiny bit of schadenfreude because they've interviewed and rejected me twice).