Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
I love technical content like this. Not only is it incredibly interesting and informative, it also serves as a perfect counterpoint to the popular "why does Netflix need X thousand engineers, I could build it in a weekend" sentiment that is frequently brought up on forums like this one.Building software and productionalizing/scaling it are two very different problems, and the latter is far more difficult. Running a successful company always requires an unlimited number of very smart people who are willing to get their hands dirty optimizing every aspect of the product and business. Too many people today think that programming starts and ends at pulling a dozen popular libraries and making some API calls.