[iamricks]

Standing on the shoulders of giants, Netflix engineers didn't have blog posts from other companies on how to handle the scale they started facing. Facebook didn't have blog posts to reference when they scaled to 1B users. They pay for talent that have built systems that had not been built before and they have seen a return on it so they continue to do it.

[wowokay]

Hulu was around before netflix

[Cerium]

Sure? "After an early beta test in Oct. of that year, Hulu was made available to the public on March 12, 2008—a year after Netflix launched its own streaming service."

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/5-things-to-know-abou...

[msh]

Hulu was never Netflix scale. YouTube is a better example.

[gavin_gee]

yeah and have you see the awful performance of Hulu? its basically unusable. poster child for under investing in the streaming platform.

[paxys]

Huh? Netflix predates Hulu by over a decade.