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Remember Disney+ isn't completely new software, Disney acquired MLBtv aka BAMtech to run the site. And their business is live streaming, not "merely" VoD.
by stefan_ 7y ago
Remember Disney+ isn't completely new software, Disney acquired MLBtv aka BAMtech to run the site. And their business is live streaming, not "merely" VoD.
- jld 7y agoDisney also operates Hulu.
- durden0 7y agoI thought they were a partial investor/owner, not an operator.
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- jld 7y agoThey are the operator and majority shareholder, and have agreed to purchase the rest of the shares from Comcast by 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/media/disney-buys-comcast-hul.. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/media/disney-buys-comcast-hul....
- intpx 7y agoAh that explains it. they must have put their UI/UX people in charge of infra
- BryantD 7y agoBAMTech has had high volume days, obviously, but on reflection I couldn't think of any service launch they powered that'd be bigger than this. WWE, HBO relaunch, NHL, MLB -- none seem likely to generate as much demand as this.
- kareemm 7y agoBAMtech was spun out of MLB Advanced Media, has been doing streaming since 2002. If you could choose anybody to rely on to launch D+ they’re at the top of the list.
- ArtWomb 7y agoYa, I don't have too much in terms of insidery baseball. But I did have some colleagues at MLB in nyc. I recall it was pretty much a Java shop. With Akami providing extensive CDN support. If one is interested in rolling one's own clone of Netflix. there isn't really a tutorial or course to watch to learn how its done. And there very much should be. The closest you can get is probably Dave Hahn's Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer series from AWS re:Invent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_D1G42G0dE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_D1G42G0dE