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> Netflix’s infrastructure is entirely in the cloud This doesn’t sound accurate to me. What about their 400Gb/800Gb FreeBSD boxes serving up content? Surely
by Bluecobra 4y ago
> Netflix’s infrastructure is entirely in the cloud
This doesn’t sound accurate to me. What about their 400Gb/800Gb FreeBSD boxes serving up content? Surely those are in installed in Netflix managed collocation facilities? Unless the author is suggesting that any on-prem hardware is a ‘private’ cloud. :barf:
- bluedino 4y agoISP facilities, but yes
- beckingz 4y agoNetflix was famously "All in" on AWS for quite a while.
- synicalx 4y agoAs my AWS account manager back then LOVED to tell me every time we spoke
- VirusNewbie 4y agoYou misunderstood the term infrastructure here. Almost no one considers edge services “infra”.
- Bluecobra 4y agoI disagree, as a network engineer the edge devices (e.g. firewalls/routers) that I manage in my company are 100% internal infrastructure. If you go by Netflix's own architecture diagrams, they do have a local presence at colo facilities: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/#sample-architectures https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/#sample-architectures If one of these appliances installed in an ISP's cabinet dies, content to end users will get served directly by an appliance within Netflix's infrastructure.