[nhumrich]

Most companies have smart engineers. The difference is how they prioritize tasks. Most companies spend a significant amount of time building new features. Netflix is pretty low in terms of number of features. Their core product is uptime and reliability. So the result is that they _have_ to reinvent scalable solutions because the rest of us are accepting production issues for more time to build out features. What you see is the result of laser focus on uptime. Not even AWS cares about uptime as much as netflix.