BAMtech was spun out of MLB Advanced Media, has been doing streaming since 2002. If you could choose anybody to rely on to launch D+ they’re at the top of the list.

Ya, I don't have too much in terms of insidery baseball. But I did have some colleagues at MLB in nyc. I recall it was pretty much a Java shop. With Akami providing extensive CDN support.

If one is interested in rolling one's own clone of Netflix. there isn't really a tutorial or course to watch to learn how its done. And there very much should be.

The closest you can get is probably Dave Hahn's Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer series from AWS re:Invent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_D1G42G0dE

BAMTech has had high volume days, obviously, but on reflection I couldn't think of any service launch they powered that'd be bigger than this. WWE, HBO relaunch, NHL, MLB -- none seem likely to generate as much demand as this.

Disney also operates Hulu.

I thought they were a partial investor/owner, not an operator.

They are the operator and majority shareholder, and have agreed to purchase the rest of the shares from Comcast by 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/media/disney-buys-comcast-hul....

Ah that explains it. they must have put their UI/UX people in charge of infra