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by mschuster91 2542 days ago
> Imagine if the Netflix guys were told to stay boring and not invent new shiny things?

For what it's worth most of what Netflix is doing is delivering video files. This in itself does not require rocket science, a matching amount of Squid or any other caching reverse proxy is sufficient - and CDNs at this scale have been around for far longer than Netflix was.