Netflix took a very early stance that they wanted a large portion of IT ops pushed out of the company.
One still needs to provide the means to supporting the actual tools which are required to the core business continuity -- but the industry has matured a great deal in the last ten years to the point where you have multi-billion dollar enterprises where their whole core business is that singular department that Netflix has chosen to push out of their management purview via outsourcing that cost....
This is not a bad business decision - the AWSs DOs etc have commoditized all the portions of that previously in-house IT department in a way which everyone can benefit.
The risk is in the last mile.
The most needed disruption in the tech-world today is in the carriers in their current incarnation. THEY MUST DIE.
Its a cost benefit analysis issue.
Netflix took a very early stance that they wanted a large portion of IT ops pushed out of the company.
One still needs to provide the means to supporting the actual tools which are required to the core business continuity -- but the industry has matured a great deal in the last ten years to the point where you have multi-billion dollar enterprises where their whole core business is that singular department that Netflix has chosen to push out of their management purview via outsourcing that cost....
This is not a bad business decision - the AWSs DOs etc have commoditized all the portions of that previously in-house IT department in a way which everyone can benefit.
The risk is in the last mile.
The most needed disruption in the tech-world today is in the carriers in their current incarnation. THEY MUST DIE.