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This is a remarkable technical achievement that builds on all of its past work, as are the other updates from Netflix in the past with serving ever more traffic
by theideaofcoffee 4y ago
This is a remarkable technical achievement that builds on all of its past work, as are the other updates from Netflix in the past with serving ever more traffic from a single box. That said, I still find it terrifying that so many users would be affected by a single machine going down, that blast radius is so huge!
Do we know if the rates that these hosts serve actually make it into production? Or do they derate the amount they serve from a single host and add others?
- lanstin 4y agoI think they buffer and if the stream has issues the client connects to another host. They have been doing chaos monkey for a long long time.
- drewg123 4y agoAs I said in a parallel comment, this is a testbed platform to see what problems we'll encounter running at these speeds. Production hosts are single socket, and can run at roughly 1/2 this speed. I regret that I've crashed boxes doing hundreds of Gb/s. Thankfully our stack is resilient enough that customers didn't notice.