Netflix has developed a unique live streaming architecture, recently analyzed in Faultline after publication of the streamer’s latest tech blog on live scaling. Such is the importance of this bar-setting technology for the present and future of live streaming at scale, that it deserves a second look from an alternative – yet still skeptical – angle. Let’s begin by examining the major changes Netflix made to its well-established VoD architecture to support live streaming. Netflix has retained its core infrastructure—AWS cloud services and the Open Connect CDN. Historically, Netflix has built its technologies in-house or relied on open-source components. However, in the live streaming space, we observe a shift in this strategy. For ingest and transcoding, Netflix has adopted off-the-shelf…