What Happens after you press 'PLAY'
Netflix - What happens after you press 'PLAY'
What Happens after you press 'PLAY'
Keep in mind this presentation is not a technical deep dive, It's a macro level article deep enough to give you a quick ride !
For example, I don't mention the word microservice even once :-)
:-) Wait , Showing a Loader Gif Does not mean its the end !
All good things starts with a loader :-)
Netflix seems so simple
Just Press play and video magically appears.
Easy, right?
Easy, right?
Not so much.
You might expect Netflix to serve video using AWS
You might expect Netflix to serve video using AWS
Press play in a Netflix application and video stored in S3 would be streamed from S3, over the internet, directly to your device.
What is S3
A completely sensible approach…for a much smaller service.
It’s far more complicated and interesting than you might imagine.
But that’s not how Netflix works at all.
But that’s not how Netflix works at all.
It’s far more complicated and interesting than you might imagine.
It’s far more complicated and interesting than you might imagine.
But that’s not how Netflix works at all.
It’s far more complicated and interesting than you might imagine.
To see why, let’s look at some impressive Netflix statistics for 2017.
Netflix stats - 2017
To see why let’s look at some impressive Netflix statistics for 2017.
Netflix has more than
110 million subscribers
Netflix is available in 200 countries
Netflix has nearly
$3 billion
in revenue
per quarter.
Netflix adds more than 5 million new subscribers
per quarter
Netflix plays more than 1 billion hours of video each week.
As a comparison, YouTube streams 1 billion hours of video every day while Facebook streams 110 million hours of video every day.