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Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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I work for an organisation that is at this scale on AWS. Of course, we use Terraform, but the cost explorer and tags and so on are still usable (and useful).

That’s fair, I should have caveated this statement with the fact that I don’t know much about using the modern AWS console. There are likely a few factors at play here, including the fact that Netflix decided to go its own way in this regard ~15y ago. Though I work at a smaller (but still large), newer company now we still also have our own stuff for this.

I can back up your anecdote.

For we have in the order of 10^6 SNS topics in one account+region pair. In that account, while in that region, the SNS console is entirely frozen. I suspect they're doing some looped pagination polling in the background and fall over on our degenerate use case.

Edit: I can also back up the other parent comment - tagging still works fine (and I know for a fact the stability and scalability of the tag system is taken more seriously than most things within AWS)

Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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Perfect time for Demonoid to return

Multi-tracker search has become much more viable today with tools like Servarr/Prowlarr out there, so you there's less of an incentive for a "one to beat them all" style tracker.

Hehe, my ploy to get best info on how to do this worked.

Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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Well, users paying for Netflix, are not supposed to be subject to unasked quality downsampling just because you watch from a non-TV device. This sort of optimization might be fine with small laptop screens, but not 5k Computer screens, and I don't know if Netflix does it on purpose or just put `if not TV => send lowerRes` in their code (simplified of course).

The answer is piracy. There are no content providers that are confident enough in their DRM to send 4k streams to devices that are in control of their owners instead of cooperations. PCs are the scariest thing ever and they will do everything in their power to kill them. Pirate content and be free Or buy an apple tv and hook it up to your monitor.

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Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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I suspect almost everyone shares a netflix account with thier household and statistically there's few single person households. So this is life, everything is setup for the average even things like bin collections will assume multiple people in your house.

Almost 30% of households are singles and another third are households of two.

And netflix have two plans with only 1 screen.

Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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These restrictions are never there to prevent piracy. It’s there for corporates to be able to say that “we did everything”. They are there for legal reasons. That’s true for every single security features. It’s a side effect if some security feature is really effective. Most of them are just annoyance, they don’t prevent anything.

There are enough games out there to simply show this isn't true.

What do you mean?

Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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I shared Netflix with my family (parents, sister, brother) for 2 years and think I ran into the 2 screen limit twice. 4 screens seems just entirely unnecessary to me. That said, if Netflix decided 4K was the segmentation for the higher plan and gave 4 screens to the lower plan, that wouldn't suit me personally, but I would prefer the pricing. Honestly the screens concept seems outdated with their anti-password sharin…

The more typical use case involves background TV running in multiple rooms. Much of what Netflix licenses and produces is made for this. Recently: "Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529756 It's easy to blow past four with a screen, not necessarily a TV, going in every room.

Even if we take a family of 4 as an example, who are at most 1/3rd of Netflix's user base according to another commenter, that means having 4 TVs/PCs, all on at the same time, and all with Netflix playing. That seems like a real edge case at the fringes to me, not least because it would necessitate no one in the family being together.

Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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Multi-tracker search has become much more viable today with tools like Servarr/Prowlarr out there, so you there's less of an incentive for a "one to beat them all" style tracker.

Hehe, my ploy to get best info on how to do this worked.

Bonus: never mind Demonoid, this also means Usenet is back!

Re: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

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Hehe, my ploy to get best info on how to do this worked.

Bonus: never mind Demonoid, this also means Usenet is back!

Time is a flat circle. I'm not mad because I get to enjoy things I missed this time around.
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