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by seabass-labrax 897 days ago
Netflix's technology is incredibly advanced. The term 'revolutionary' is somewhat subjective, but what isn't subjective are achievements like streaming video at 400GB/s with a single server[1], no, make that 800GB/s[2], and writing a FUSE-based filesystem that runs at gigabit speeds despite storing data on AWS[3].

[1]: https://papers.freebsd.org/2021/eurobsdcon/gallatin-netflix-...

[2]: https://papers.freebsd.org/2022/eurobsdcon/gallatin-the_othe...

[3]: https://netflixtechblog.com/mezzfs-mounting-object-storage-i...

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none of that is relevant when somehow magically every major media company spun up a netflix competitor in a couple years