> their streaming service normally seems very solid
Not trying to downplay their complexity, but last I heard Netflix is splitting the shows in small data chunks and just serves them as static files.
Live streaming is a different beast
Not trying to downplay their complexity, but last I heard Netflix is splitting the shows in small data chunks and just serves them as static files.
Live streaming is a different beast
With the way that they are designed, you can even use a regular CDN.
Scale has increased but the techniques were figured out 20 years ago. There is not much left to invent in this space at the current moment so screwing up more than once is a bit unacceptable.