January 2023
Beginner to intermediate
108 pages
2h 59m
English
2015 was a great year for Netflix. The streaming service ended Q4 that year with 4.33 million new subscribers signed up, beating analyst expectations. That growth sent the company’s stock price soaring 121 percent above the prior year. Journalists noted that its content costs rose rapidly as well, from $6 billion in 2012 to $10 billion in 2015. Netflix spent more to produce content than it gained in revenue during the same period. Still, subscriber growth was so strong, especially from abroad, that its future looked bright.
The software engineering team at Netflix knew its pipelines weren’t ready to meet this demand. At the time, Netflix had 500 microservices generating over 10 petabytes of data each ...
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