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Yup Pornhub serves much more video than Netflix and they do so without that insane amount of complexity.
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Yup Pornhub serves much more video than Netflix and they do so without that insane amount of complexity.
- mattsan 3y agoHonestly Pornhub's stack is genuinely impressive. More start-ups should just use PHP and get shit done
- Nextgrid 3y agoI think one of the reasons behind PornHub's tech stack is that their industry doesn't really lend itself to VC, so building an engineering playground for PH would be a waste of money as no amount of complexity would net them VC money (nor an invite to a cloud provider conference), where as most startups live and die based on the VC funding their complexity and buzzwords allow them to grift.
- plaguuuuuu 3y agoI think the takeaway was that choice of language might be less important than engineering strategy, because PH are successful despite their choice of stack :)
- x86x87 3y agoPornhub is not about waving the engineering flag up and down to signal how cool their infra is though.
- Roark66 3y agoIsn't pornhub free, their only monetization being ads? Also does Pornhub have personal recommendations, per country and region libraries, an android, ios and android TV apps? Probably not. That is a much easier business model and a lot lower level of complexity than Netflix. I imagine running pornhub is essentially running a large website that hosts video. Probably just the billing side of Netflix is more complicated than the entirety of Pornhub operation.
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- Nextgrid 3y agoPornHub has significantly more content than Netflix, not to mention the ability for users to upload content and have it immediately available worldwide. That alone makes it significantly more complex than Netflix.