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This is cool, but why? What’s the business use case or problem they’re trying to solve? I would have liked to hear about that. Without that critical piece, it s
by lumb63 3y ago
This is cool, but why? What’s the business use case or problem they’re trying to solve? I would have liked to hear about that. Without that critical piece, it sounds like Netflix engineers spent a lot of time and effort just to migrate to a new framework.
It also bears mentioning that Netflix is, or pretty much should be, complete. They don’t need to make any changes to the service; if so, it’s very few. I’m sure they need talented engineers to scale up their operations, and great SREs, but what are they still writing code for?
- XorNot 3y agoThis has been a perennial question about Netflix for a while now: they've tended to want to brand themselves as a tech company, but that hasn't been true for a long time now and was questionable to start with. If they were a tech company that'd be a SaaS provider for video streaming, in which case all of this would make sense - the proliferation of streaming providers certainly provides the use-case that someone could offer that as a branded service. But the time for that has come and gone as well - the other streaming services exist, and they work fine.
- WorldMaker 3y agoThe business case seems to be to finally kill Falcor [1] which had a lot of similarities to GraphQL but a much smaller maintenance and developer community than GraphQL and I would assume looked a lot like tech debt to Netflix at this point. [1] https://github.com/Netflix/falcor https://github.com/Netflix/falcor