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I don't think Netflix is even designed to handle very extreme multi-region live-streaming at scale as evidenced in this event with hundreds of millions simultan

by rvz 2y ago

I don't think Netflix is even designed to handle very extreme multi-region live-streaming at scale as evidenced in this event with hundreds of millions simultaneously watching. YouTube, Twitch, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc have all demonstrated to stream simultaneously to hundreds of millions live without any issues. This was Netflix's chance to do this and they have largely failed at this. There are no excuses or juniors to blame this time. Quite the inexperience from the 'senior' engineers at Netflix not being able to handle the scale of live-streaming which they may lose contracts for this given the downtime across the world over this high impact event. Very embarrassing for a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company.

gonzo41 2y ago
They must have try to do this on the cheap, thinking they could dynamically scale on the fly for this. Big mistake.
- fragmede 2y ago
  Their CDN is colo and doesn't run on AWS.
- anakaine 2y ago
  This is a total supposition without any proof.
  - colesantiago 2y ago
    What more proof do you need other than the fact that streams went down worldwide on a highly anticipated event from a public company? I wouldn't be surprised if lots of engineers at Netflix are currently now writing up a length post mortem of this. And this is from the company that created the discipline of chaos engineering for resilience. It is clear they under invested and took the eye of the ball with this. This is bad, like very very bad.
    - jhugo 2y ago
      The assumption that it was related to insufficient investment isn’t supported by any evidence. Flawed technical decisions can be made by the most expensive engineers too.
      - colesantiago 2y ago
        The evidence is that the stream went down. We will see why it went down and to what extent they underinvested in their post mortem.
        jhugo 2y ago
        That’s not evidence for the assertion you made.
        colesantiago 2y ago
        Other potential and future entertainment partners Netflix will be working with e.g. WWE, will certainly see my view as they will be questioning Netflix's capability after that major streaming issue we both saw. This isn't Netflix's first time they had this live streaming problem. People will see this as an underinvestment from Netflix's part and they will reconsider going to a different streaming partner.

by rvz 2y ago

gonzo41 2y ago

They must have try to do this on the cheap, thinking they could dynamically scale on the fly for this. Big mistake.

fragmede 2y ago
Their CDN is colo and doesn't run on AWS.
anakaine 2y ago
This is a total supposition without any proof.
- colesantiago 2y ago
  What more proof do you need other than the fact that streams went down worldwide on a highly anticipated event from a public company? I wouldn't be surprised if lots of engineers at Netflix are currently now writing up a length post mortem of this. And this is from the company that created the discipline of chaos engineering for resilience. It is clear they under invested and took the eye of the ball with this. This is bad, like very very bad.
  - jhugo 2y ago
    The assumption that it was related to insufficient investment isn’t supported by any evidence. Flawed technical decisions can be made by the most expensive engineers too.
    - colesantiago 2y ago
      The evidence is that the stream went down. We will see why it went down and to what extent they underinvested in their post mortem.
      - jhugo 2y ago
        That’s not evidence for the assertion you made.
        colesantiago 2y ago
        Other potential and future entertainment partners Netflix will be working with e.g. WWE, will certainly see my view as they will be questioning Netflix's capability after that major streaming issue we both saw. This isn't Netflix's first time they had this live streaming problem. People will see this as an underinvestment from Netflix's part and they will reconsider going to a different streaming partner.