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Netflix actually crashed and got stuck buffering often while livestreaming Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul. I wasn't expecting this, but I wasn't extremely surprised either. Livestreaming and recorded content are wildly different in terms of how it is engineered. Netflix's decade+ of experience is in streaming movies. They leverage some incredible edge-caching techniques via their OpenConnect. They not only cache at edge CDNs, they even let ISPs partner in this program and download a cache of top Netflix content into their servers, so when users of that ISP stream movies, it goes from the ISP to the consumer within that network but isn't a net ingress for the ISP (reducing their cost). All of this optimisation goes out of the door when you're real-time livestreaming. And that's the reason world over, media companies are split between those who do entertainment (recorded content, like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Prime) and those who do News and Sports (Sky, Fox, ESPN) In fact in India, Hotstar and JioCinema are very very unique in doing *both* entertainment as well as live sports and news at a really big scale. Only other platform which does both recorded and live at massive scale without hiccups is obviously YouTube (we take Google for granted but this is a crazy company in terms of what they do at scale). The only caveat with Google is that they do not need to implement DRM or stream security as they do free streaming and no one tried to *pirate* their content. And this is why actually live streaming to 50M+ scale is actually considered a major feat of engineering by the people who actually understand how this industry works, unlike a lot of tech *influencers* just say "oh it is all CDN" 😅

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