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asien | 3 years ago

> 2 MB of logs per minute of user streaming time.

2MB/minute is 33KB/second.

How is that impressive?

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jaywalk|3 years ago

I think it's impressive that they somehow found 33KB/second worth of data to log for each stream. I can't even imagine the amount of useless shit that must be logged to get to that number.

westpfelia|3 years ago

This is where I'm at. Like thats honestly not much log data. But what are they actually logging? I imagine there is a LOT of repetitive data.

seti0Cha|3 years ago

Detailed logging can function as an on-demand APM. Not a bad idea if you have the bandwidth and storage for it.

zwily|3 years ago

I think the impressive thing is how much data that is for each user-minute. What could they possibly be storing in 33KB for each second of Netflix you stream?

bpicolo|3 years ago

That's per user. So a million (or ten, 50...) active users means a lot more per minute.

schmeckleberg|3 years ago

i think you and the above poster are in vehement agreement. ingesting 2 MBs of logs per minute is impressive in its pluperfect unimpressiveness.

maybe the presentation was called "Timmy's first named pipe" or "Sally explores /etc/logrotate.d"

FredPret|3 years ago

That’s a LOT of text to describe me sitting on my couch. 2MB per minute is far more than the most detailed biography in existence.

exdsq|3 years ago

220m users. Let’s imagine 50m are streaming concurrently. That’s 100TB an hour in logs lol. They could be storing an entire petabyte of logs a day. My friend did some data center stuff for the large hadron collider and wasn’t hitting these data ingestion states, and these are just to record me binging the office.

eightysixfour|3 years ago

2 MB/per minute/per stream at Netflix scale is crazy.