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

People just do not appreciate how many gotchas can pop up doing anything live. Sure, Netflix might have a great CDN that works great for their canned content and I could see how they might have assumed that's the hardest part.

Live has changed over the years from large satellite dishes beaming to a geosat and back down to the broadcast center($$$$$), to microwave to a more local broadcast center($$$$), to running dedicated fiber long haul back to a broadcast center($$$), to having a kit with multiple cell providers pushing a signal back to a broadcast center($$), to having a direct internet connection to a server accepting a live http stream($).

I'd be curious to know what their live plan was and what their redundant plan was.

You are making excuses for a multibillion dollar company that has been in this game for many years. Maybe the first to market in streaming.

This isn’t NFLX’s first rodeo in live streaming. Have seen a handful of events pop up in their apps.

There is no excuse. All of the resources and talent at their disposal, and they looked absolutely amateurish. Poor optics.

I would be amazed if they are able to secure another exclusive contract like this in the future.

Sorry for the off topic but what’s this thing that I only come across in Hacker News about referring to a company by their stock exchange name (APPL, MSFT, etc) outside of a stock context? It seems really weird to me.

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brevity

Writing APPL instead of Apple doesn’t get you any fewer keystrokes.

Technically it’s one fewer keystroke (and it’s AAPL).

It’s a lot fewer keystrokes for MS (Morgan Stanley), GS (Goldman Sachs) and MSFT (Microsoft) than it is for AAPL, but it’s a force of habit for some. Once you’re used to referring to firms by their ticker symbols, you do it all the time.

E.g. an ex trader friend still says “spot” instead of “point” when referring to decimal points, even if talking in other contexts like software versions.