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That's not the point here. OP said, that the Netflix team could at the time deliver scale, while other teams couldn't.
by chinathrow 6y ago
That's not the point here. OP said, that the Netflix team could at the time deliver scale, while other teams couldn't.
- hintymad 6y agoYeah, and the key difference is simple: The 100x engineers in Netflix just understood that file-based lookup for key-value pairs won't scale for OLAP-like workload on time series, and of course they possessed the sheer capability of implementing the right technology from ground up.
- diab0lic 6y agoI was on Roy's team at this time. I am not one of the four mentioned in the link, but I definitely know exactly who is being talked about. I wanted to comment that these four were considered outliers even by Netflix standards for being very high performing. So bear in mind the example is an extreme one.