I highly doubt this. Netflix has a system of OCAs that are loaded with hard disks, are installed in ISP’s networks, and serve the majority of those ISP’s customers.
Given than many people had no problems with the stream, it is unlikely to have been an origin problem but more likely the mechanism to fanout quickly to OCAs. Normally latency to an OCA doesn’t matter when you’re replicating new catalogs in advance, but live streaming makes a bunch of code that previously “didn’t need to be fast” get promoted to the hot path.
Given than many people had no problems with the stream, it is unlikely to have been an origin problem but more likely the mechanism to fanout quickly to OCAs. Normally latency to an OCA doesn’t matter when you’re replicating new catalogs in advance, but live streaming makes a bunch of code that previously “didn’t need to be fast” get promoted to the hot path.