How Netflix Streams to 200 Million Viewers Without Melting
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At 7 PM on a Friday, tens of millions of people press play at roughly the same time. They expect the video to start instantly, never buffer, and look perfect on a phone, a laptop, and a television. No single data center could serve that. No single architecture decision explains it either. Netflix stays up because a dozen boring decisions compound into a system with no single point of failure and no hot spot that matters. This is the architecture, layer by layer, and what each layer teaches you