I'm curious to hear thoughts on why Disney+ crashed this morning. I'm sure Netflix engineers are having a good laugh. With all the their resources did they really underestimate demand?
If Netflix laughed they need to look in the mirror. So many outages on Netflix in the past
Oh that might be their pet monkey, not their fault...:P (Chaos monkey)
Likely didn’t prepopulate their CDNs appropriately. There was some other streaming service that did the same when they launched in Europe, forget who it was? Hulu?
Nah it wasn’t the CDN. Even basic things like logging in or changing your avatar didn’t work, although when the thing did work, the stream was fine.
It worked fine for me last night. Why do you say it crashed?
So many big launches have failed like this. It will fail frequently for a while, Disney will extend everyone’s free trial, and it will be forgotten in a few weeks. Their content trumps all.
I'm an engineer over at prime video and I'm just upset I can't see the mandalorian smh
If you reload it, it works fine. Watched the Mandalorian. Disney+has so much good content! I’m totally unsubscribing from Netflix (too much noise and shtty content there half the time I scroll 10 mins to find something I want to watch and end up going elsewhere)
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Disney+ is going to wipe Netflix out
Hope this happens. Netflix needs a reality check. Too much koolaid here
Writing was on the wall a few years back when the net neutrality efforts failed. Since then it's only been a matter of time before the network providers would merge with or partner with media companies. Disney+ is that combined effort. Not only do they have better family content, which is the big market for home streaming, but they will use their ownership of the last mile networking to give preferential treatment and pricing to their own content and bundle it with their internet service. Netflix will either die or be acquired by a cable operator or it won't be able to fight back. It'll literally get blocked out of people's homes in subtle ways, Disney+ will just "work better" because its traffic will have priority in the network, customers won't know or care that this is inflicted by their own provider so long as the option available to them that works is good enough. This will happen even if Netflix has a technically better product, it'll just lose to the anti competitive practices that vertical monopolies have.
most people will forget about any outage news stories in 24 hours
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