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The reason why this is critical for Netflix is that all the infrastructure is provided as a service and this completely out of their control.

By creating faults in the Netflix service which they can build around to stay optimally available, they completely or nearly completely eliminate the risk of being affected by faults in AWS services.

Now, clearly this has not been 100% true yet because some major outages have effected Netflix - though that's when the entire service fails, as opposed to single point of failure types of faults, which chaos monkey is really designed to accomodate.

(disclaimer: this is my outside perception based on purely interest in how Netflix has built themselves. I could be incorrect)




You are mostly correct. The infrastructure isn't completely out of our control, but it is indeed provided by a 3rd party.

By creating faults it means we know we can handle those types of outages.

As we experience new types of faults, we build tools and systems to make us resilient to those types of faults, and where possible similar but yet unexperienced faults.


Jedberg - what is your role at Netflix specifically?

I have a question, I asked this of Adrian, but he was of the opinion that Netflix would likely never accommodate:

How can a hospital have group Netflix streaming accounts such that users in their patient rooms could view/stream netflix to their rooms?

Can you make a commercial account / support this?

What about the following grey method for handling this: Th hospital pays for a group of individual streaming accounts. Their Patient Entertainment system can then check-out an account for use by the patient. The patient watches what they want, then when done, the system checks-in the account for use.

Would this be amenable to the TOS you may have?

The reason this is important is that cable ompanies are raping hospitals for providing cable TV service to their patient rooms. Netflix is a far better path for the future.

Thanks


I work on site reliability.

As for all the rest, I'm unfortunately not in a position to answer any of that. Adrian's probably right though. I suspect our content licenses would preclude that type of account.




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