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aedocw on July 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effectiv...

I see "You have 2 free stories left this month." at the top.

It's a vanity URL for Medium. If they've got their own domain why would they want to drive any traffic to medium? That doesn't make any sense to me.

devwastaken on July 10, 2020 [–]

Probably red tape and sysadmins. Easier to just use a different service than it is to convince the sysadmins to host your blog software and maintain that.

dvtrn on July 11, 2020 | [–]

Makes me wonder what made them choose Medium for their engineering blog versus your friendly neighborhood static website host.

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