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

It's incomprehensible to me that Netflix, one of the most highly skilled engineering teams in the world - completely sh*t the bed last night and provided a nearly unwatchable experience that was not even in the same league as pre-internet live broadcast from 30 years ago.

My bet is that a technical manager told his executive (multiple times) that he needed more resources and engineering time to make live work properly, and they just told him to make do because they didn't want to spend the money.

It could come down to something as stupid as:

Executive: "we handled [on demand show ABCD] on day one, that was XX million"

Engineering: "live is really different"

Executive: (arguing about why it shouldn't be that different and should not need a lot of new infrastructure)

Engineering: (can't really argue with his boss about this anymore after having repeated the same conversation 3 or 4 times) -- tells the team: we are not getting new servers or time for a new project. We have to just make do with what we have. You guys are brilliant, I know you can do it!"

hopefully their stock takes a big hit monday - these types only understand one thing

What’s amazing is that they have had several streaming flips before and are unable to fix it

I had buffering issues but then backed off and let a bit of it buffer up (maybe 1 or 2 mintues?) and then it was fine for the entire Tyson Paul match. There was no reason I needed it to be live vs. a 1 or 2 minute delay.

Are you serious? You think they don't care about this except if the stock 'takes a bit hit'??

If you had money riding on it because of legalized sports gambling in your state and sports regulators clearing it to be a thing to bet on, then it was probably pretty psychologically important whether or not there was a 1 or 2 minute delay on you seeing the results of the game.

Caring about things and tangible consequences are two different things. I don't necessarily agree with the GP comment but one should expect a higher quality retort.

hopefully that technical manager has a paper trail and that executive has someone to answer to above them. in cases like this, i always throw together a doc and ask for sign offs.

Hahaha this reads very close to what actually happened