Adrian CockcroftMay 6, 2023
So many bad and superficial takes on the Prime Video monolith story, time to write a blog post…
RonanMay 7, 2023
Show threadAdrian Cockcroft
Here's the blog post... https://adrianco.medium.com/so-many-bad-takes-what-is-there-to-learn-from-the-prime-video-microservices-to-monolith-story-4bd0970423d4
So many bad takes — What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

The Prime Video team published this story: Scaling up the audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%, and the internet piled in with opinions and bad takes, mostly missing the point…

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Show threadחנן כהן • Hanan CohenMay 6, 2023

@adrianco I have a question that's not related to server/less that I hope you could answer. Do I understand correctly that streaming vendors check the quality of every frame transmitted to every user?

If not, what are they checking and how much?

Thanks.

Show threadAdrian CockcroftMay 6, 2023
@hananc For the pre-recorded streaming content there are automated quality checks that look for bad frames etc. For every session Netflix logs what bitrate you get and what CDN endpoint it came from, and any rebuffer stall. This new tool was for checking live events that can’t be checked offline.