> Google, Facebook, Baidu, Amazon, the self driving car companies are doing cutting edge stuff in terms of scalability and analysis, but not Netflix. I think y

> Google, Facebook, Baidu, Amazon, the self driving car companies are doing cutting edge stuff in terms of scalability and analysis, but not Netflix. I think you're missing a quantifier of some sort. Perhaps "consumer-facing"? Of any AWS customer, Netflix is far and away the leader in understanding and making use of AWS. It pushes the limits more often than not. Their scalability, failure/recovery handling and (assumed) cost-effective deployments are _the_ standard in AWS and cloud computing. They even have an open-source toolset[0] for testing your infrastructure against failures and recovery that's quickly being picked up by several other companies to harden their infrastructure. Then you realize that regularly, throughout the day, they're intentionally bringing their own infrastructure down and they can still operate with nary a hiccup. I wouldn't call that over-engineered. [0] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy