When I mean "cached", it means that the PoP server can serve content without contacting the origin server. (The PoP can't serve content it does not have).
>and it seems Netflix opted to forego the last one to avoid a the bad PR of an error message of "we are over capacity" and instead went with actually let it burn, no?
Anything other than 100% uptime is bad PR for Netflix.
When I mean "cached", it means that the PoP server can serve content without contacting the origin server. (The PoP can't serve content it does not have).
>and it seems Netflix opted to forego the last one to avoid a the bad PR of an error message of "we are over capacity" and instead went with actually let it burn, no?
Anything other than 100% uptime is bad PR for Netflix.