Why buy Netflix when you could get a similarly qualified team and infrastructure by buying Hulu? Oh wait... Disney already owns Hulu... Whoops.
What about ESPN. ESPN has a really good streaming product. Oh wait... Disney already owns that one too...
Disney didn't need to buy Netflix, they just needed to use the resources they already owned!
Then I had 6 months of pretty normal hours working on maintenance, then I went back on another project and they had me working 60 - 80 hours (with some 40 and some 100 sprinkled in) for 18 months straight before we finished the project and I bailed.
Great resume builder but be prepared to put in hours.
Is this work culture the norm in the US? I audibly said "wtf" just now, sitting at my work desk.
Compared to any big 4 or FAANG though? You can work at MS and pull 40 hour weeks or AMZN/FB with 60. Pays better, looks better.
As I posted above, they own BAMTech, one of the most well respected companies in the streaming infrastructure space.
Building for scale is not hard for good engineers, building for rapid, reliable scale from day one is hard. No one knows how to do it. Building for scale is always about patching holes while you grow slowly.
Even Google doesn’t do big band released like Disney tried to do. They keep things in beta, start off with a limited number of invitations until they work all of the kinks out.
Netflix didn’t become popular overnight. They had time to scale out slowly and on different devices.
PS: I have always disliked how they operate, but my sister’s working there making movies. So, I try to keep an open mind.
All of the big tech companies with hardware sales and grunt work do the same.
I got two free AppleTV 4K’s by taking advantage of a promotion from DirectTv Now, the difference in performance between them - with an Apple A10x chip - and the built in Roku TV is noticeable.
But if you have a smart TV that’s not a Roku, it’s probably even worse.
Also I bought a very expensive TV, and while I didn't dissect it I don't think there are any cheap parts in it - and the reviews all agree it had a top-of-the-line processor at the time and that was only a year ago. I mean it even has glass bezels for the OLED panel.
I don't think anything you say applies to my situation at all. I think Hulu just has some shitty software.
I'm glad it works for you, but it's pretty awful for me.
YouTube is the only platform that can compare to Netflix on reliability. I'd throw Twitch up there too but their scale is much smaller.
It is possible they just had a massive surge of traffic.
https://storage.googleapis.com/titlemax-media/1c8ace8f-every...
Just checked the numbers: Netflix ~700M, Hulu ~28M, ESPN depending on the source ~6M.
I was having issues this morning but just with home and category pages. The “featured” links to content worked fine, but the index type pages I’m assuming were just getting hammered.
