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by jpalomaki 1606 days ago
Some perspective from Netflix. Around 10k employees [1] (could not find how many are working with software), more that 1000 microservices [2].

The second article also provides some insight to the services. Those make sense for me - they truly sound like independent, relatively large pieces of software. Not like “LoginService” type of things you sometimes see.

Few examples: 1)Create a main menu list of movies 2)Determine your subscription status to provide content relevant to that subscription tier 3)Use your watch history to recommend videos you may like

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/numbe... [2] https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/netflix-aws?hs_amp=true