Netflix vs. Livestreaming: Who Won?

While the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight was lackluster in terms of a boxing fight, Netflix’s testing of their live streaming infrastructure was not! I am going to take my best professional, educated guess as to why it happened, and why the issues that were reported will be turned into a net positive win for the streaming giant.

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We know that the pillars of uptime are reliability, scalibilty, and maintainability. We also know that Netflix has championed development teams making sure that their production ready products are ready for downtime at any moment with their infamous Chaos Monkey resiliency tools. However, livestreaming on their already somewhat famous infrastructure is a different beast.

We won’t know the real strategy until the Netflix infrastructure engineers (hopefully) release a post mortem blog. Until then, I decided to breakdown what I believe they focused on reinforcing to make such a large livestream - with a rumored 1/6th of the world’s internet users streaming - a company event. A more detailed blog with diagrams and takes will be available this coming week on my blog on www.gitcute.com. Stay tuned because I will send out a blast to let you know when it drops!

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