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Supplying sufficient video to be responsible for 25% of consumer internet bandwidth is a different story.

• toomuchtodo 9y ago
  Can you be more specific? Do you mean producing their original content? Or rendering renditions for each bitrate, and then pushing those renditions out to their custom CDN appliances? (OpenConnect) I can most definitely get behind original content production being hard. But pushing a couple hundred TB (or even low double digit PB) of data out to CDNs doesn't require a fleet of devs.
  • phamilton 9y ago
    Total content is likely closer to 100 PB. The "25% of consumer bandwidth" is a proxy for how heavily Netflix is used. Take a look at some of their open source projects and their tech blog to get a feel for the problems they solve at their scale. https://netflix.github.io/ https://netflix.github.io/ https://medium.com/netflix-techblog https://medium.com/netflix-techblog Some things I find personally interesting: They run a 5000 node Cassandra cluster. They can failover an entire datacenter in 27 minutes.
• user5994461 9y ago
  Akamai can do that for you just fine.
  • phamilton 9y ago
    Apparently, Akamai does about 30 Terabits/s[0]. Netflix does "tens of terabits per second"[1]. Essentially, Netflix is about as big as Akamai when it comes to content delivery. [0] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/facts-figures.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/facts-figures.jsp [1] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-with-isps-around-the-globe-to-deliver-a-great-viewing-experience https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...