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>> Externally, companies like Spotify I hate people bringing them up - its just being a sucker for marketing. Spotify and Netflix are clearly brands recruited

>> Externally, companies like Spotify I hate people bringing them up - its just being a sucker for marketing. Spotify and Netflix are clearly brands recruited to promote their respective platforms. The only question is how large a discount they are getting among other special treatment in return for their name. I wouldn't be surprised if its conditional on a gag criticising the platform too. These are the sort of situations that are revealed years later to have required a totally isolated and custom solution that bore no resemblance to the service it was intended to promote. Special partnerships prove nothing because the economics and service you get won't be remotely similar.

vgt 11y ago
You can listen and read Spotify engineers talking about their experiences with Google, including running 2,000,000 qps load tests without ever telling anyone at Google. If you read some of their blogs, you can see how brutally honest they are about the pros and cons of our services: https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/10/spotifys-event-delivery-the-road-to-the-cloud-part-iii/ https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/10/spotifys-event-delivery-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVFg6YOjWo&index=7&list=PLIivdWyY5sqLpj5W-tdqT3O2NQ-_LgiPL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVFg6YOjWo&index=7&list=PLI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6tQAIywFQ&index=1&list=PLIivdWyY5sqLpj5W-tdqT3O2NQ-_LgiPL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6tQAIywFQ&index=1&list=PLI... Finally, does this sound like an engineer who got paid to speak? https://twitter.com/mpjme/status/702167231623516160 https://twitter.com/mpjme/status/702167231623516160