Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Dumb question

Isn't live streaming at scale already solved problem by cable companies? I never seen ESPN going down during a critical event

Yes, as I have said again and again on hacker news in different comments Netflix went overboard with their microservices and tried to position itself as a technological company when it's not. It has made everything more complex and that's why any Netflix tech blog is useless because it is not the way to build things correctly.

To understand how to do things correctly look at something like pornhub who handle more scale than Netflix without crying about it.

The other day I was having this discussion with somebody who was saying distributed counter logic is hard and I was telling them that you don't even need it if Netflix didn't go completely mental on the microservices and complexity.

This is not the same streaming - netflix is doing that over HTTP. Totally different tech and scaling issues

You would think, but technology always finds a way to screw things up. Cox Communications has had ongoing issues with their video for weeks because of Juniper router upgrades and even the vendor can't fix it. They found this out AFTER they put it in production. Shit happens.

Yes and no. It's not the "same" but this is a solved problem. Fastly regularly delivers the Super Bowl to 10x as many viewers.

Netflix dropped the ball hard

Fastly says they do 6M ccv for superbowl (i'm actually surprised they let them do the entire thing and don't mix different CDNs) and I'm not sure they do encoding and manifest serving - they might just cache/deliver chunks. Do you really think tyson vs other guy was only 600k ccv? I'd be shocked if Netflix can't handle this.