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I think 99% of the "hard stuff" at Netflix is serving the video. Making a robust, consistent, fast user experience that works well across all devices, resoluti
by onion2k 5y ago
I think 99% of the "hard stuff" at Netflix is serving the video.
Making a robust, consistent, fast user experience that works well across all devices, resolutions, and network conditions is quite hard.
If it was easy then fewer websites would suck.
- yosamino 5y agoI am curious - I'm just doing a somewhat naive implementation for a private project. Do you have any pointers to a writeup of some specific problems I might not have encountered yet ?
- blamarvt 5y agoHonestly the official Netflix site seems to perform similarly to your implementation in terms of number of files it downloads and the size of files. One thing I found was when emulating mobile screen size I wasn't able to horizontally scroll with my track pad. It works on Netflix though. I'm betting you'll find 100+ of those 'small' things with user testing across different OS/browser combinations.