System Design · sector

Video, music & media

Streaming, encoding and getting bytes close to every viewer.

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Netflix's system design

Two systems in one: a brain on AWS that decides what you watch and where it comes from, and its own CDN inside your internet provider, filled every night — plus per-title encoding, failover practiced on purpose, and 65 million live streams.

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