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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: 0s | source
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jameson ◴[16 Nov 24 04:25 UTC] No.42154205[source]▶
Dumb question

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

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dilyevsky ◴[16 Nov 24 04:37 UTC] No.42154292[source]▶
This is not the same streaming - netflix is doing that over HTTP. Totally different tech and scaling issues
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1. hmcq6 ◴[16 Nov 24 06:58 UTC] No.42154937[source]▶
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

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2. dilyevsky ◴[16 Nov 24 07:24 UTC] No.42155035[source]▶
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.