Sure? "After an early beta test in Oct. of that year, Hulu was made available to the public on March 12, 2008—a year after Netflix launched its own streaming service."
Youtube is very different than Netflix from a technical problem perspective. They serve free videos to anyone around the world that are uploaded by users.
It's closer to a live streaming problem than pre-encoded video like Netflix.
Having worked at Netflix I can say that the YouTube problem is much more complex.
I wonder what portion of Youtube's request traffic can be served with cache servers at the edge with a few hundred terabytes of storage. There's a very long tail but i would guess a significant portion of their traffic is the top ~10,000 videos at any given moment.
There was a Google organised hackathon on this topic. Given a set of resources, locations, and (estimated) popularity, Optimise for video load time by determining what should be moved to the cache when and where.
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