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If only it were that simple... But every second relatively young engineer I interview points out that "But Netflix! Look how good the cloud works for them!" and
by kovyrin 12y ago
If only it were that simple... But every second relatively young engineer I interview points out that "But Netflix! Look how good the cloud works for them!" and once again I need to explain, that Netflix spends millions in engineering resources cost to handle EC2 issues and we are not (almost nobody is) Netflix (yet?).
- toomuchtodo 12y agoOh thank goodness. I thought I was the only one.
- ori_b 12y agoNetflix also runs many of their own servers, and puts their own racks into many data centers. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/peeringLocations/index.html https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/peeringLocations/index.h...
- vanessa98 12y agoAmazon also runs Netflix racks