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Dumb question Isn't live streaming at scale already solved problem by cable companies? I never seen ESPN going down during a critical event
by jameson 2y ago
Dumb question
Isn't live streaming at scale already solved problem by cable companies? I never seen ESPN going down during a critical event
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoYes, as I have said again and again on hacker news in different comments Netflix went overboard with their microservices and tried to position itself as a technological company when it's not. It has made everything more complex and that's why any Netflix tech blog is useless because it is not the way to build things correctly. To understand how to do things correctly look at something like pornhub who handle more scale than Netflix without crying about it. The other day I was having this discussion with somebody who was saying distributed counter logic is hard and I was telling them that you don't even need it if Netflix didn't go completely mental on the microservices and complexity.
- dilyevsky 2y agoThis is not the same streaming - netflix is doing that over HTTP. Totally different tech and scaling issues
- hmcq6 2y agoYes and no. It's not the "same" but this is a solved problem. Fastly regularly delivers the Super Bowl to 10x as many viewers. Netflix dropped the ball hard
- dilyevsky 2y agoFastly says they do 6M ccv for superbowl (i'm actually surprised they let them do the entire thing and don't mix different CDNs) and I'm not sure they do encoding and manifest serving - they might just cache/deliver chunks. Do you really think tyson vs other guy was only 600k ccv? I'd be shocked if Netflix can't handle this.
- bastard_op 2y agoYou would think, but technology always finds a way to screw things up. Cox Communications has had ongoing issues with their video for weeks because of Juniper router upgrades and even the vendor can't fix it. They found this out AFTER they put it in production. Shit happens.