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Its because Netflix pretends to be a tech company to get the high market cap. So they hire tons of engineers who have nothing to do but rearchitecture the mess

Its because Netflix pretends to be a tech company to get the high market cap. So they hire tons of engineers who have nothing to do but rearchitecture the mess their microservices have created. Then there are others who create observability and test harnesses for all of that. When Pornhub and other porn sites can deliver orders of magnitude more data across the world with much simpler systems, you know it's all bullshit.

thfuran 2y ago
>When Pornhub and other porn sites can deliver orders of magnitude more data across the world with much simpler systems, you know it's all bullshit When is that, exactly? https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-downstream-traffic/ https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-...
- exe34 2y ago
  isn't it like 30%?
- ATMLOTTOBEER 2y ago
  “Other” in your diagram is mostly porn
  - thfuran 2y ago
    Even supposing that "Other" is just pornhub and nothing else, that's less than one order of magnitude more than Netflix.
- rty32 2y ago
  What is the methodology of the report? Just one of the questions I have regarding this -- China has nearly 1.4 billion people, and barely any of them use any of the services here. Instead, they have their own video platforms. And you tell me that none of those platforms use at least the same amount of traffic of Prime Video? I doubt it.
  - barnabyjones 2y ago
    I found the report the statistic is from [0]. But note that it says "by app," so I don't think it's actually all traffic, just the top apps. Their reported source is data from 300m customers in different regions. [0] https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downloads/2023/reports/Sandvine%20GIPR%202023.pdf https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downlo...
tempest_ 2y ago
To be fair when netflix started they were solving legitimate problems that a major streaming provider would have. In the time since those problems have been solved and now are offered as a service by most cloud providers (for a hefty fee of course)
renewiltord 2y ago
> When Pornhub and other porn sites can deliver orders of magnitude more data across the world with much simpler systems, you know it's all bullshit. That's nothing. My dedicated server delivers two orders of magnitude greater traffic than Pornhub (and everything in the Mindgeek network really). And I don't even need the cloud. Just better engineering.

thfuran 2y ago

>When Pornhub and other porn sites can deliver orders of magnitude more data across the world with much simpler systems, you know it's all bullshit When is that, exactly? https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-downstream-traffic/ https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-...

exe34 2y ago
isn't it like 30%?
ATMLOTTOBEER 2y ago
“Other” in your diagram is mostly porn
- thfuran 2y ago
  Even supposing that "Other" is just pornhub and nothing else, that's less than one order of magnitude more than Netflix.
rty32 2y ago
What is the methodology of the report? Just one of the questions I have regarding this -- China has nearly 1.4 billion people, and barely any of them use any of the services here. Instead, they have their own video platforms. And you tell me that none of those platforms use at least the same amount of traffic of Prime Video? I doubt it.
- barnabyjones 2y ago
  I found the report the statistic is from [0]. But note that it says "by app," so I don't think it's actually all traffic, just the top apps. Their reported source is data from 300m customers in different regions. [0] https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downloads/2023/reports/Sandvine%20GIPR%202023.pdf https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downlo...

tempest_ 2y ago

To be fair when netflix started they were solving legitimate problems that a major streaming provider would have. In the time since those problems have been solved and now are offered as a service by most cloud providers (for a hefty fee of course)

renewiltord 2y ago

> When Pornhub and other porn sites can deliver orders of magnitude more data across the world with much simpler systems, you know it's all bullshit. That's nothing. My dedicated server delivers two orders of magnitude greater traffic than Pornhub (and everything in the Mindgeek network really). And I don't even need the cloud. Just better engineering.