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Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by dangrossman on Monday September 20, 2021 @12:37AM (#28590427)
> Video encoding is 70% of Netflix’s computing needs, running on 300,000 CPUs in over 1000 different autoscaling groups.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/4/the-eternal-cost-s...

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Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by jsnell on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:31AM (#28591144)
Thanks. The numbers still aren't lining up for me, but guess it can't be helped :)

They're saying that encoding a season of Stranger Things took 190k CPU-hours. That's about 20k CPU-hours per one-hour episode. If they need 300k cores round the clock, that implies they're encoding 360 hours of content every day (300k*24/20k=360). To a Netflix customer, it seems pretty obvious they don't have 360 hours of new content coming in daily.

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