<story><title>Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/introducing-dynomite.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>personZ</author><text>Netflix always makes for an interesting case, but what always strikes me is how incredibly &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; their application really is: It&amp;#x27;s a simple application at a very large scale. This doesn&amp;#x27;t dismiss their accomplishments, of course, but often it does seem like Netflix spends an enormous engineering effort on fairly low value aspects of the service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>Well, they make it seem trivial, while dealing with every watch and every pause, every rating updating complex recommendation engine algorithms. They deal with licensing and region awareness and proxying by ISP and running their own CDNs and...&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the magic.&lt;p&gt;To boot, they do it at &lt;i&gt;enormous&lt;/i&gt; scale on a multitude of platforms all while their own destructive code (Chaos Monkey) runs around destroying servers.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s true, some things like &amp;quot;stream me this&amp;quot; are maybe not rocket science, but at Netflix scale, everything becomes a bit more difficult.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/introducing-dynomite.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>personZ</author><text>Netflix always makes for an interesting case, but what always strikes me is how incredibly &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; their application really is: It&amp;#x27;s a simple application at a very large scale. This doesn&amp;#x27;t dismiss their accomplishments, of course, but often it does seem like Netflix spends an enormous engineering effort on fairly low value aspects of the service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrallison</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re discounting the &amp;quot;very large scale&amp;quot; portion of your statement.&lt;p&gt;What may seem fairly low value from the outside or consumer perspective is likely of huge value internally to ensure you can always watch Netflix without even thinking about everything that has to happen to deliver as much video as they do to their customer&amp;#x27;s browsers.</text></comment>