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Why not though? Isn’t storage cheap compared to compute? Hell, compared to the cost to license the movie storage is pennies.
by endisneigh 5y ago
Why 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.