A million-dollar engineering problem

Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by secabeen on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:40PM (#13888430)

Remember that Netflix runs their core product (content distribution) internally on their own CDN. All of the supporting technologies (billing, content discovery, etc.) is on AWS, but the core product is not.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by rbranson on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:59PM (#13888612)

This was a pretty recent change. Netflix has classically relied on third-party CDN providers. They launched the streaming service in 2007, and it took them 9 years to move 100% of their traffic to their own CDN infrastructure. That said, they still have one of the largest AWS footprints.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by user5994461 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:48PM (#13888513)

The core products are the shows, not the tech.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by omarchowdhury on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:36PM (#13888935)

Without the tech, no one sees the core products.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by user5994461 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:04PM (#13889164)

Without the shows, the tech has nothing to show. Who's gonna pay for nothing?

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by omarchowdhury on Thursday March 16, 2017 @08:00PM (#13890249)

Those with the shows didn't build the tech, but Netflix did.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by antons_ghost on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:14PM (#13890563)

And now Netflix is even building shows.

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