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Netflix is not doing this work to improve user latency, they are doing this work to minimize cost: > At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to op
by conradev 4y ago
Netflix is not doing this work to improve user latency, they are doing this work to minimize cost:
> At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity.
The idea being that if you pay for fewer servers you spend less money
- abrookewood 4y agoAnd at their scale, this makes sense. No one is going to do this work if if means they run 2 servers instead of 6.