[Bloat] fast.com - Netflix's speed monitoring

[Rich Brown]

I just saw Netflix's Fast.com site. They (may) suffer from non-neutral treatment by various carriers, so they set up their own testing suite so that their customers can see if Netflix servers are getting full treatment.

Netflix make interesting choices in the design of the test. They only measure download speed (since that's their customer's major beef). It's a really attractive page, and it's pretty clear what they're doing.

This blog posting tells how they designed it and some of the challenges. http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html

Cheers!

Rich