Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by Dylan16807 on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:18PM
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But the goal wasn't better or faster. It was giving more customers the same service. You're talking about a completely different problem.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by xuhu on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:38AM
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No, just 3 babies in 9 months.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by bmurphy1976 on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:48AM
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That's too simplistic. What about the doctors and medical facilities and other supporting infrastructure? What about the baby food and medicine and clothing and supplies and what about the people to take care of the children? You think you can just keep throwing more women at a hospital having babies to infinity and not have any problems?
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by Dylan16807 on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:22PM
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There's a limit on those things, but it might as well be infinity when you're trying to have 1 baby or 3 babies or 100 babies.
1M users and 10k employees is not in the range where you have crushingly impactful logistics.
Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
by kaba0 on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:46AM
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You can deliver DVDs to netflix subscribers as well to achieve a much bigger throughput, but I doubt they would be as popular as they are right now :D
To add something useful as well besides snark, first of all, there are hard physical limits, which are sometimes well within context (you really shouldn’t try to outcompete light speed for example, relevant in some high-freq trading, infrastructure projects). Then you can try to increase headcount to any number, you won’t produce for example a better compiler. There are simply jobs that are more “serial” - the only way to win at those is to try to employ the very best of the field in a small team.