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> As much as this website could be very trafficked I have the feeling they are overcomplicating their infra, for little gains. This sort of personal opinion re

> As much as this website could be very trafficked I have the feeling they are overcomplicating their infra, for little gains. This sort of personal opinion reads like a cliche in software development circles: some rando casualy does a drive-by system analysis, cares nothing about requirements or constraints, and proceeds to apply simplistic judgement in broad strokes. And this is then used as a foundation to go on a rant regarding complexity. This adds nothing of value to any conceivable discussion.

gcr 1y ago
characterizing netflix as a "read-only" website is incredibly shortsighted. you have: - a constantly changing library across constantly changing licensing regions available in constantly changing languages - collaborative filtering with highly personalized recommendation lists, some of which you just know has gotta be hand-tuned by interns for hyper-demographic-specific region splits - the incredible amounts of logistics and layers upon layers of caching to minimize centralized bandwidth to serve that content across wildly different network profiles i think that even the single-user case has mind boggling complexity, even if most of it boils down to personalization and infra logistics.
- motorest 1y ago
  > characterizing netflix as a "read-only" website is incredibly shortsighted considering: The people talking about "read-only" didn't even bothered to read the overview of the system they are criticizing. They are literally talking out of wilful ignorance. But here we are.
- rpsw 1y ago
  This blog about an architecture change is about the Tudum website specifically, not the whole of Netflix.
- jiggawatts 1y ago
  > constantly changing languages Wouldn't that be nice! NetFlix still only supports 4 or 5 subtitle languages. Their billions of dollars of fancy-pants infrastructure just doesn't scale to more than half a dozen of so text files.
inquirerGeneral 1y ago
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gcr 1y ago

characterizing netflix as a "read-only" website is incredibly shortsighted. you have: - a constantly changing library across constantly changing licensing regions available in constantly changing languages - collaborative filtering with highly personalized recommendation lists, some of which you just know has gotta be hand-tuned by interns for hyper-demographic-specific region splits - the incredible amounts of logistics and layers upon layers of caching to minimize centralized bandwidth to serve that content across wildly different network profiles i think that even the single-user case has mind boggling complexity, even if most of it boils down to personalization and infra logistics.

motorest 1y ago
> characterizing netflix as a "read-only" website is incredibly shortsighted considering: The people talking about "read-only" didn't even bothered to read the overview of the system they are criticizing. They are literally talking out of wilful ignorance. But here we are.
rpsw 1y ago
This blog about an architecture change is about the Tudum website specifically, not the whole of Netflix.
jiggawatts 1y ago
> constantly changing languages Wouldn't that be nice! NetFlix still only supports 4 or 5 subtitle languages. Their billions of dollars of fancy-pants infrastructure just doesn't scale to more than half a dozen of so text files.

inquirerGeneral 1y ago

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