How Netflix Eats the Internet

pacopico writes "Every night, Netflix accounts for about one-third of the downstream Internet traffic in North America, dwarfing all of its major rivals combined. Bloomberg Businessweek has a story detailing the computer science behind the streaming site. It digs into Netflix's heavy use of AWS and its open-source tools like Chaos Kong and Asgard, which the Obama administration apparently used during the campaign. Story seems to suggest that the TV networks will have an awful time mimicking what Netflix has done."

Comments

Is Netflix

[Anonymous Coward]

Basically taking advantage of an infrastructure it doesn't pay for?

They're Still SPAMMERS

[Erbo]

I don't care how advanced Netflix's architecture and infrastructure are, they still use unsolicited commercial E-mail--spam--to advertise their services. I've seen it. Other people have seen it. I do not do business with spammers. Period.