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Netflix looks to be a fully finished product. All the complexity is handled by AWS since the service is fully cloud powered. People have Netflix for newly released shows not for the engineering features… makes you wonder what their engineers actually do? I feel Netflix can be effectively run by consultants from WITCH when they need to add a feature. I can’t think of a single thing in the history of Netflix where I was like “wow that’s an amazing feature built by brilliant engineers!”
Lol what?
I smell a dumdum
I've often wondered this myself, though I would lose OP's dismissive tone. Netflix's product suite is maybe easier to wrap your head around than the rest of FAANG; seems like a much more focused set of problems to be solved. Would love to hear some genuine answers from Netflix employees.
They must have a lot of backend to figure out what people want and to help their creators deliver that.
Good question. Getting stuff to work on a thousand different TV models takes a surprising amount of work. For every new feature released there are probably ten that are tested. Infrastructure etc is always being upgraded behind the scenes. And while some of the product is customer facing, there are plenty of products that are inside facing. E.g. tools for TV show production.
When is the robots taking over show biz?
Thanks for this @bekindyo. Is there anything else not obvious to us outsiders?
Even if all the complexity were handled by AWS (which I don't believe is true for most of Netflix), you still have to maintain ops for those systems.
I really hope you're trolling. You know they built region failover mechanisms on top of AWS for various stateful services? You know how hard that is? Their CDN also needs itsration and ops.. Same with various data infra projects. Thats infra, as a product they have to develop services for content acquisition, content development, reccomendation engines, etc. Which uses said infra
They’re all working on manipulating the algorithm to ensure left-leaning content is shown first and ensuring that the “Black Voices” section has quality movies. Like every other big-tech company.
Booo! Go back your cave!
Lmao it’s actually in jest, I love Netflix.
Cashing their checks all day
AWS is always changing and therefore infrastructure which consumes AWS will also need changing Obviously there will always be ops related work Design changes?