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I doubt a "microservice" has anything to do with delivering the video frames. There are specific kinds of infrastructure tech that are specifically designed to

I doubt a "microservice" has anything to do with delivering the video frames. There are specific kinds of infrastructure tech that are specifically designed to serve live video to large amounts of clients. If they are in fact using a "microservice" to deliver video frames, then I'd ask them to have their heads examined. Microservices are typically used to do mundane short-lived tasks, not deliver video.

dartos 2y ago
There’s very likely a dedicated service for delivering frames. That’s service would technically be a “microservice” even if it is a large service.
- shermantanktop 2y ago
  Why is that “very likely”? I’m genuinely curious about the reasoning behind that statement. It’s very possible that you are using a different set of assumptions or definitions than I am.
  - dartos 2y ago
    I say that because, for performance reasons, you’d never want to wait on potentially several hops to stream media and because the act of streaming could very well be a good enough domain boundary.
    - PeterStuer 2y ago
      I'm fairly well versed in basic ip networks, but the above sounds like a wordsalad to me.
      - dartos 2y ago
        That’s okay, you probably just haven’t worked with high performance services or micro services before. Network requests (sometimes called hops) take a significant amount of time. You don’t want your streaming service to take a significant amounts of time. In microservices land, you generally try making services based on some “domain” (metaphorical, not like a literal domain name) which defines the responsibility of any given service. Defining these domains is more art than science and depends on the business needs and each team. Video streaming might be one of those domains for Netflix.
        PeterStuer 2y ago
        Honestly, I've seen my fair share of 7 layer SOAP stacks. Not sure if any of your unsubstatiated handwaving is making any sense. Tell me specifics.

dartos 2y ago

There’s very likely a dedicated service for delivering frames. That’s service would technically be a “microservice” even if it is a large service.

shermantanktop 2y ago
Why is that “very likely”? I’m genuinely curious about the reasoning behind that statement. It’s very possible that you are using a different set of assumptions or definitions than I am.
- dartos 2y ago
  I say that because, for performance reasons, you’d never want to wait on potentially several hops to stream media and because the act of streaming could very well be a good enough domain boundary.
  - PeterStuer 2y ago
    I'm fairly well versed in basic ip networks, but the above sounds like a wordsalad to me.
    - dartos 2y ago
      That’s okay, you probably just haven’t worked with high performance services or micro services before. Network requests (sometimes called hops) take a significant amount of time. You don’t want your streaming service to take a significant amounts of time. In microservices land, you generally try making services based on some “domain” (metaphorical, not like a literal domain name) which defines the responsibility of any given service. Defining these domains is more art than science and depends on the business needs and each team. Video streaming might be one of those domains for Netflix.
      - PeterStuer 2y ago
        Honestly, I've seen my fair share of 7 layer SOAP stacks. Not sure if any of your unsubstatiated handwaving is making any sense. Tell me specifics.