Hacker News Reader

Netflix runs on AWS, and even if they didn't, I would seriously question their management if they decided to hire chip designers. There's something to be said about being focused and not trying to do everything in-house, or specializing where it makes sense to do so.

View on HN

Yes. Netflix sells content. Any savings they make on the tech-stack side is going to need to be shared with the companies that they are buying content from.

It makes much more sense for them to focus on making content than making ARM chips.

Why wouldn't they? Maybe not the best of the best of chip designers, but sure, at least a half decent one. Just so you know what kind of chip would be perfect for the kinds of workloads that you have, without divulging secrets to anyone else, all so that you can find the best value for money out there in the market. Honestly, if you didn't do this, I would probably consider you incompetent.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com