But Netflix (or their service provider) probably should be paying to peer. The problem is that Comcast is also in the media game so they have an incentive to use the peering as leverage against a competitor. An ISP…
I think this is due to the speed at which techies' skills rot. You stay in the same place doing the same thing for 5 years and you have a skill set that no exciting employer (incuding your current one) is going to want.…
Indeed, for callbacks and such I find it good to just think of the web browser as just another web service client calling an API: that's where you draw your line of trust (your own code running in your own environment).
But Netflix (or their service provider) probably should be paying to peer. The problem is that Comcast is also in the media game so they have an incentive to use the peering as leverage against a competitor. An ISP…
I think this is due to the speed at which techies' skills rot. You stay in the same place doing the same thing for 5 years and you have a skill set that no exciting employer (incuding your current one) is going to want.…
Indeed, for callbacks and such I find it good to just think of the web browser as just another web service client calling an API: that's where you draw your line of trust (your own code running in your own environment).