Can anyone explain why Netflix is considered to have such high tier engineering? Just from a super high level view they store and serve ~5000 videos saved at a few different qualities (4?) so lets say a total of 20,000 videos. Those files only change when specific privileged users update them.
Compare that with Youtube where ~5,000 videos are uploaded, processed into different formats/qualities every minute, and can be added by anyone with an email. It seems like Netflix has a fairly trivial problem when compared with video sharing or content sharing sites.
Compare that with Youtube where ~5,000 videos are uploaded, processed into different formats/qualities every minute, and can be added by anyone with an email. It seems like Netflix has a fairly trivial problem when compared with video sharing or content sharing sites.