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

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492 points storf45 | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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freditup ◴[16 Nov 24 03:57 UTC] No.42154036[source]▶
I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically.

This sure doesn't help with that impression, and it hasn't just been a momentary glitch but hours of instability. And the Netflix status page saying "Netflix is up! We are not currently experiencing an interruption to our streaming service." doesn't help either...

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oaththrowaway ◴[16 Nov 24 04:21 UTC] No.42154174[source]▶
I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.
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1. taeric ◴[16 Nov 24 06:11 UTC] No.42154744[source]▶
Not really a joke, though? VOD has obvious methods to cheat a bit. Redundancy abounds and you can even network shape for costs. Could probably get even better compression for clear reasons.

Live, not so much. One source that you have to fanout from and absolutely no way to get cheap redundancy. Right?

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2. oaththrowaway ◴[16 Nov 24 16:03 UTC] No.42157030[source]▶
Yes, of course but it was still a cope because we never saw more than maybe 3M concurrent viewers at a time