Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021
Google: Whenever you access your favorite storage services, the same three building blocks are working together to provide everything you need. Borg provisions the needed resources, Spanner stores all the metadata about access permissions and data location, and then Colossus manages, stores, and provides access to all your data.
cpeterso: I was talking with a Netflix product manager a few years ago and, IIUC, he said Netflix re-encodes their entire catalog monthly to take advantage of new encoder optimizations. Disk is cheap. They want to optimize network transfers to both save money and improve user experience.
@rashiq: it’s incredible to me that a $5 digital ocean box can serve traffic for 200k unique visitors and yet there’s startups out there who deploy their landing pages with kubectl