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Great story, brah. Except for the CDN. https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/
by late2part 11y ago
Great story, brah. Except for the CDN.
https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/peeringLocations/
- justincormack 11y agoYes, a data centre in every ISP. If it was all in one place it would be a huge data centre.
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- michaelbuckbee 11y agoWasn't familiar with OpenConnect. It is the program where Netflix puts a caching server in an ISP's datacenter so that the traffic is more "local" and cheaper for all involved.
- 2trill2spill 11y agoOpenConnect is the CDN that serves the actual Netflix video, it's Based on FreeBSD 10 and Nginx. Netflix puts them in ISP's and internet peering locations across the internet.
- yardie 11y agoWas going to say exactly this. They've decentralized their datacenter by pushing it to their users ISP.
- late2part 11y agoA lot of folks responded to this by talking about how Netflix asks ISPs to put caches in the ISP locations. That is true but it's not the point. Netflix runs a large CDN on their own infrastructure, and rents space in various datacenters. They "peer" from these locations to distribute their traffic, and they also buy transit to distribute their traffic. They also send traffic to ISP caches from these locations. So they are running their own data centers, in many locations.