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They must have try to do this on the cheap, thinking they could dynamically scale on the fly for this. Big mistake.
by 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 agoTheir CDN is colo and doesn't run on AWS.
- anakaine 2y agoThis is a total supposition without any proof.
- colesantiago 2y agoWhat 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 agoThe 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 agoThe 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 agoThat’s not evidence for the assertion you made.
- colesantiago 2y agoOther 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.