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Netflix’s Media Production Suite

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256 points MattSayar | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 01:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.316s | source
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BhavdeepSethi ◴[01 Apr 25 05:25 UTC] No.43543128[source]▶
15 years ago, the first start up I worked for provided APIs for music streaming in India. One of the founders who managed all infra was in US, and so the servers (bare metal) were in LA. I still find it amusing, that it was cheaper (and faster) just to fly to India, buy bunch of portable hard drives, upload the media, fly back to US and upload the data to the file server, than uploading the media directly from India to the US server. Obviously only applies when data is in order of TBs. Later saw the same thing with AWS Snowball and Snowmobile.
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1. Foobar8568 ◴[01 Apr 25 06:46 UTC] No.43543576[source]▶
We had to transfer a few 10GBs, if not 100GBs between Europe and the US back 15yo.

Bandwidth was of 100KB/sec at most, I suggested to do that fly over things if the systems team didn't want to raise the priority of that transfer, after prod tried 3 times over the weekend, sadly, they changed the priority of that flow, it took still like 40h? For the initial load.