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

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492 points storf45 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.278s | source
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nikolay ◴[16 Nov 24 21:49 UTC] No.42159649[source]▶
The arrogant Netflix! They always brag about how technologically superior they are, and they can't handle a simple technological challenge! I didn't have a buffering issue, I had an error page - for hours! Yet, they kept advertising the boxing match to me! What a joke! If you can't stream it, don't advertise it to save face with people like me who don't care about boxing!
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1. StressedDev ◴[16 Nov 24 22:01 UTC] No.42159731[source]▶
Every organization makes mistakes and every organization has outages. Netflix is not different. Instead, of bashing them because they are imperfect, you might want to ask what you can learn from this incident. What would you do if your service received more traffic than expected? How would you test your service so you can be confident it will stay up?

Also, I have never seen any Netflix employees who are arrogant or who think they are superior to other people. What I have seen is Netflix's engineering organization frequently describes the technical challenges they face and discusses how they solve them.