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characterizing netflix as a "read-only" website is incredibly shortsighted. you have: - a constantly changing library across constantly changing licensing regi
by 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 agoThis 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.