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Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

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Re: Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

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Post by jedberg »

> I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing.

You know old time journalists had a solution to this. Interviewing subjects with first hand knowledge.

I know I rag on highscalability a lot, but I feel like they deserve it. They've written multiple articles about topics in which I would be a first person resource (Reddit and Netflix), and not once have they ever contacted me or anyone I worked with for an interview. They've quoted me from presentations, but the quotes were out of context and wrong they way they quoted it.

All of this could have been cleared up with a single interview of anyone who is a primary source expert.

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Post by radicalbyte »

jedberg wrote: post #2

> I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing. You know old time journalists had a solution to this. Interviewing subjects with first hand knowledge. I know I rag on highscalability a lot, but I feel like they deserve it. They've written multiple articles a…

A really good way for you to get your point across would be to write a reactionary blog post detailing the actual information. Netflix seem to be pretty cool & open about things so it should be possible?

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Post by jedberg »

radicalbyte wrote: post #3
jedberg wrote: post #2

> I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing. You know old time journalists had a solution to this. Interviewing subjects with first hand knowledge. I know I rag on highscalability a lot, but I feel like they deserve it. They've written multiple articles a…

A really good way for you to get your point across would be to write a reactionary blog post detailing the actual information. Netflix seem to be pretty cool & open about things so it should be possible?

A good idea, except I haven't worked there in almost three years, so a lot of my knowledge it out of date.

I have to start by interviewing my old co-workers! :)

Re: Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

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Post by pavs »

Many of the things Netflix does here google does too and has been doing for a long time like GGC (Google Global Cache) for free at ISP NOC or datacenters - their GGC nodes are many orders of magnitude time is distribution.

90% of the Google traffic through these devices are youtube videos.

They mention it in the article like Netflix pioneered this idea with open-connect. If anything it's harder to get OC devices from Netflix then it is from Google.

Even Akamai does have a similar program where they let you put their CDN on ISP NOC.

Re: Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

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Post by HenryBemis »

inciampati wrote: post #8

Nothing. So you go to your nearest torrent aggregator and are streaming it down in 3 minutes.

I read the word "nothing" and I thought to mysel: now THIS will turn interesting!!! (thinking that this will point to removal of Net Neutrality and the risks and conflicts it will bring to online services once ISPs turn aggro to both content producers/distributors and end-customers.

Buuuuuuuuut no.. it was a silly short-lived comment about piracy (not even an educating one)

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