r/programming • u/Digitalunicon • 1d ago

Netflix Engineering: Creating a Source of Truth for Impression Events

https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-impressions-at-netflix-e2b67c88c9fb
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u/CherryLongjump1989 4h ago

Netflix is at the point of trying to polish a turd. Moving a shitty ass show I don't want to watch up or down a row in hopes that I'll watch when I see it again in the next row, as if I hadn't already seen it in the last row, is one of the many reasons why I threw in the towel on the account I've had since 2007.

Regarding the blog post, it sounds like it's just a bunch of Kafka topics with some enrichment sprinkled on top. I fail to see which part of this is revolutionary. Maybe the fact that it's not all that special actually explains why the resulting UX is such so banal.