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Somebody explain to me pls. There was already a lot of work being done on streaming video 30 years ago. What the heck have they not figured out yet? Isn't it just a matter of scaling up what worked in the past? :marseyconfused:

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It's a different beast from what Netflix normally does with streaming. You can read about Open Connect online, it's quite interesting. Basically Netflix sticks a box full of its content library in edge data centers owned by your ISP. So when you watch Bridgerton with your foid, Netflix doesn't really handle much video traffic. They do, of course, handle a bunch of other traffic, but the bulk of data won't go over the backbone.

Live streaming is different because you need to record video, do a bunch of processing on it on-the-fly (e.g. adding graphics, encoding, etc.), and get it onto your viewers' screens in 5-10 seconds. Obviously, in this case Netflix's infra would be handling a lot more load because it's directly involved in getting video to your screen.

Isn't it just a matter of scaling up what worked in the past?

Yeah, lots of companies do live streaming obviously, but it's relatively new for Netflix. Ultimately it is just a matter of scale though, and this is by far the biggest live thing Netflix has done. So possibly Netflix underestimated how popular the fight would be and didn't have the infra in place to handle the load.

The interesting thing is how much harder it is to stream over IP than over cable. Live broadcasts have been a solved problem for decades, but since we want to stream over the internet and not over traditional cable, it's suddenly a much more difficult problem.

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Interesting. I'll remember this the next time Hulu isn't doing a good job streaming my '90s shows about girls in bikinis.

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99.99% of what a swe does has been solved a 1000x over already, in arbitrarily different ways, and we're mostly just nitpicking around connecting all the various permutations of differences up.

because investors are too stupid to cooperate enough to share discrete state number transformations

we're just tryin to get paid dude shut up.

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Youd rhink but no single r-slur has ported pylons to pthon 3+ :marseyrobot:

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Sexy Indian dudes have a tendency to either not use freely available solutions or they try but theyre too complicated for their low IQ.

There are also a lot of proprietary systems that you have to connect and those systems, at best, have a communicat interface but often don't have a connector built in.

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