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Pornhub serves more diverse data across the world with a much simpler pipeline. They are the ones who should be emulated. Netflix needs a bit of housecleaning t
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Pornhub serves more diverse data across the world with a much simpler pipeline. They are the ones who should be emulated. Netflix needs a bit of housecleaning to get rid of this faction in the company.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoAdult website stacks are underrated. They manage to be scrappy and yet deliver a lot. I've seen streaming services serving half a million HD video users a day running on 7 servers, 2 of them being cheap vps.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoYeah, funny what a requirement for sustainable business models + no glut of resume-driven development will do. Almost like the good old days.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoAlso an open mind in hiring. Nobody will reject you because you look weird or are awkward.
- martindbp 3y agoAs a customer I can't really say that I can tell any difference between all the streaming services, so presumably this type of optimization helps Netflix's bottom line somehow?
- flagged24 3y agoNetflix beats others when it comes to low bitrate high quality streams. At some remote areas with poor cellular coverage, Netflix is the only service that provides a working video stream.
- teacpde 3y agoSo it only solves a tail problem. I would assume the percentage of subscribers with poor internet is low.
- frenchman99 3y agoWhy would you assume that?
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoIt also helps Netflix. Lower bitrate means less server load and lower internet bills.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoThat interesting. I've noticed that Amazon always takes longer to load and spend more time at a poor bitrate, while Netflix just works.
- sirsinsalot 3y agoHonestly, many business could learn how to beat-off the competition by emulating the adult industry. They're often first to come to market, aren't intimidated to try new things, resist being bound by incumbents or gagged by censors and are generally wide open to grasping the full thro ... that's enough now.
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- plasma_beam 3y agoI see what you did there. Like you had that one ready to pop.
- sirsinsalot 3y agoAlways locked and loaded me
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoSex.
- solarpunk 3y agowhere can one read about pornhub's infra? does mindgeek have an engineering blog?
- overstay8930 3y agoYou are so right, I have no idea who is running other streaming services but its pretty obvious they have absolutely no idea what they're doing when they're doing bullshit like pushing blocky h.264 streams to iPhone 15 Pros with AV1 and other crap that costs a shit ton of money for a worse outcome. Paramount looks like Youtube and uses twice as much bandwidth, that is almost impressively bad.
- rldjbpin 3y agomy 0.02 on the matter - i can commend that they got a reliable system but the deliverables are not quite comparable imho. not all "HD" is made equal. bitrate is a major component of the perceived video quality. some experienced it first hand when youtube premium started pushing higher bitrate version for 1080p (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918698). (disney+) hotstar is an indian streaming service which recently handled more than 50M+ concurrent viewers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344265) for a live sports event. but if you actually watch the stream, it is of a very poor quality. long story short: hub pushes for bitrate/quality much lower than netflix needs to in order to satisfy its paying customers, especially when they discriminate based on how much one pays. but i wonder how much it would help with non-cpu scenarios when we need to do transcoding for upcoming codecs which might benefit from using hardware accelerators.