Did anyone else see different behaviour with different clients? My TV failed on 25% loaded, my laptop loaded but played for a minute or two before getting stuck buffering, and my iphone played the whole fight fine. All on the same wifi network.
Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
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#322I'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.
I'm going to avoid leaving a zero-effort response like "actually you're the problem" like half of the replies and contribute:
Why do you call your engineers morons? Is it a lack of intelligence, a lack of wisdom, a lack of experience, inability to meet deadlines, reading comprehension, or something else?
I wonder if Netflix is just hiring for different criteria (e.g. you want people who will make thoughtful decisions while they want people who have memorized all the leetcode problems).
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#323Live streaming and streaming prerecorded movies is a whole different ballgame.
In fact, optimizing for later can hurt the former.
Would be interesting to read any postmortems on this failure. Maybe someone will be kind enough to share the technical details for the curious crowd.
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#324Live streaming and streaming prerecorded movies is a whole different ballgame. In fact, optimizing for later can hurt the former. Would be interesting to read any postmortems on this failure. Maybe someone will be kind enough to share the technical details for the curious crowd.
Amazon had issues last year too when they started broadcasting TNF but its fine these days.
I'm sure they will get it figured out.
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#325Dumb question Isn't live streaming at scale already solved problem by cable companies? I never seen ESPN going down during a critical event
This is not the same streaming - netflix is doing that over HTTP. Totally different tech and scaling issues
Yes and no. It's not the "same" but this is a solved problem. Fastly regularly delivers the Super Bowl to 10x as many viewers.
Netflix dropped the ball hard
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Apparently he was smart enough to get away from the Fortune 500 company he worked at, reporting to yourself, and "got a pay raise too." > Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. See above. > If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Net…
White-Knighting for 'fucking morons' is not a good look though. You'll end up in a world where packets of peanuts have a label on saying 'may contain nuts'.
Which would be doubly silly as peanuts aren't actually nuts.
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#327Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen tons of them! The formula is to create conditions that will make even slightly competent people leave. They hire their morron nephew, he is always 30 min late then they moan when you are 5 min late because the parking lot was blocked by their car. He always leaves 2 hours early while you do overtime that they regularly forget to pay for. Your day is filled with your own work PLUS that of your retarded cowor…
At least half of that is on you. NEVER work unpaid/unlogged OT.
Can’t speak for every place but that’s not always an option. As a teenager, I worked at Sports Direct where the management would regularly work us after our allotted hours and bar us putting the extra time onto our timesheet. If I recall correctly, the company eventually got pulled for it but the money they’d have saved over years would have outweighed the fine.
The timesheets were on paper so good luck putting your real hours on without your manager, who files it, finding out.
I’d be amazed if they ever cleaned up their act.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t work in tech. Is this something that engineers could respond to and reallocate resources to fix mid stream?
Not a chance. This level of infrastructure was set up days in advance - I would be unsurprised if they'd had a code freeze all week for this fight.
Had issues all stream but was perfect during the final fight.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Apparently he was smart enough to get away from the Fortune 500 company he worked at, reporting to yourself, and "got a pay raise too." > Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. See above. > If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Net…
White-Knighting for 'fucking morons' is not a good look though. You'll end up in a world where packets of peanuts have a label on saying 'may contain nuts'.
... or a world where grown adults pay millions of dollars to watch grown adults fighting like school children.
In fact, what am I even doing in this thread? - close-tab.