June 18, 2012 – Marking what could be an insight into an issue that could plague online TV and online video providers, over-the-top (OTT) leader Netflix has revealed the extent to which it has had to invest in infrastructure in order to ensure end user quality as the service has rapidly developed.
Indeed Netflix concedes that its move to cloud-based distribution, seen as absolutely necessary to ensure long-term ambitions as it scales out across the world, forced it to develop new design patterns for running a reliable and resilient distributed system.
Yet in addition to the technical hurdles it overcame to run successfully in the cloud, Netflix says that it also had to undergo operational and organisational transformations.