Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Post by tomcam » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 8:37 AM UTC

croes wrote: post #795

shermantanktop wrote: post #698

Every time a big company screws up, there are two highly informed sets of people who are guaranteed to be lurking, but rarely post, in a thread like this: 1) those directly involved with the incident, or employees of the same company. They have too much to lose by circumventing the PR machine. 2) people at similar companies who operate similar systems with similar scale and risks. Those people know how hard this is a…

You are basically saying, everybody who criticizes Netflix now has no clue. That’s a bold claim given that people with inside knowledge could post here without disclosing they are insiders. Is that some kind of No True Scotsman?

Post by adamredwoods » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 8:39 AM UTC

tuukkah wrote: post #824

adamredwoods wrote: post #797

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Some breaks are just too difficult to predict. For example, I work in ecommerce and we had a page break because the content team pushed too many items into an array, that caused a back-end service to throw errors. Because we were the middle-service, taking from the CMS and making the request to back-end, not sure how we could have seen that issue coming in advance (and no one knew there was a limit).

I'm not saying it's easy, but start by assuming that there's a limit and that any request can throw errors? (Proceed accordingly .)

Post by jiggawatts » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 9:23 AM UTC

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You can explain these problems with simple business metrics that technologists like to ignore. Right before the recent Twitter acquisition, the various bits of info that came to the limelight included the "minor detail" that they had more than doubled their headcount and associated expenses, but had not doubled either their revenue or profits. Technology complexity went up, the business went backwards. Thousands of p…

> Right before the recent Twitter acquisition, the various bits of info that came to the limelight included the "minor detail" that they had more than doubled their headcount and associated expenses, but had not doubled either their revenue or profits. Every tech company massively inflated their headcount during the leadup to the Twitter acquisition because money was free. I interviewed at Meta in 2021 and asked an E…

Post by chgs » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 9:59 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #725

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You’re talking about the contribution from the venue to the boardcast centre, increasingly not a full program but being mixed remotely. That’s a very different area to transmission of live to end users.

What are you talking about? The signal coming from a live event is the full package. The output of “the truck” has multiple outs including the full mix of all grafix, some only have the mix minus any branding, etc. While the isos get recorded in the truck, they are not pushed out to the broadcast center. All of the “mixing” as you call it is done in the truck. If you’ve never seen it, it is quite impressive. In one p…

Post by gverrilla » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 10:16 AM UTC

abduhl wrote: post #656

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Sorry for the off topic but what’s this thing that I only come across in Hacker News about referring to a company by their stock exchange name (APPL, MSFT, etc) outside of a stock context? It seems really weird to me.

I have always assumed that a focus on stock tickers is the natural result when your primary user base is a group of people hyper focused on “total compensation” and stock grants. The name hackernews is merely a playful reference to the history of the site. Like the name “Patriot Act.”