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Can anyone provide more information on the server infrastructure than this article: http://www.techhive.com/article/2158040/how-netflix-streams-movies-to-your-
by socmag 10y ago
Can anyone provide more information on the server infrastructure than this article:
http://www.techhive.com/article/2158040/how-netflix-streams-movies-to-your-tv.html http://www.techhive.com/article/2158040/how-netflix-streams-...
It claims each server serves up to 10,000 streams simultaneously. So operational peak capacity is at ~50M simultaneous streams.
Also, 10k streams at 1080p would be ~70Gbps per machine at full HD, or ~20Gbps per machine at SD. With some blend of course being the norm.
There is of course a big difference between being capable of and actual and FUD.
I'd really love to know what the internals of one of their streaming servers might look like.
Anyone here who has architected a box with that capacity?
- socmag 10y agoSomeone pointed out the original paper, which has better estimates than my back of the napkin calculation for traffic throughput. Good stuff. Still would love to know more about the internals of their servers and support infrastructure.
- jlgaddis 10y agoI recall seeing presentations at various FreeBSD events from Netflix folks talking about them, so a search for something like that might find what you're looking for. If memory serves... SuperMicro motherboards, multiple Mellanox/Chelsio 10 Gbps NICs (probably upgraded to 40 Gbps by now, or getting close to that point), a bunch (up to 28, perhaps?) of hard drives (with no/little redundancy for thecontent), and a ton of RAM (for ZFS ARC). They run on (heavily tuned) FreeBSD operating system.