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I assume that not all encodings of every movie are stored in perpetuity, to save space. Thus, sometimes they need to be regenerated on-demand, which is why effi
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
I assume that not all encodings of every movie are stored in perpetuity, to save space. Thus, sometimes they need to be regenerated on-demand, which is why efficiency is important.
- endisneigh 5y agoWhy not though? Isn’t storage cheap compared to compute? Hell, compared to the cost to license the movie storage is pennies.
- MontyCarloHall 5y agoI’m sure someone at Netflix did the cost/benefit analysis and found that for extremely infrequently accessed encodings of certain movies (weird bitrate/resolution combinations), it’s actually cheaper to generate them dynamically once in a blue moon than to store them in perpetuity. > Hell, compared to the cost to license the movie storage is pennies. Yup. I’d be very curious to see the breakdown in how much Netflix spends on compute versus content production/licensing. I’d be willing to bet compute is an order or two of magnitude cheaper than content. I guess all these little optimizations add up? Or maybe their engineering management can’t see the forest from the trees.
- twistedpair 5y agoI suspect they spend much more on transit than compute.