Eli5: what happens on the server when one selects to watch a movie on Netflix and how the architecture allows 500k other people to watch the same movie almost concurrently?
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You ask for ice-cream, your parents go to the nearby shop and get it for you.
Similarly, some kid in another town asks for ice-cream, their parent goes to their nearby shop to get the ice-cream.
The parents aren’t going to the ice-cream factory. Ice-cream factory sends ice-cream to relevant shops, so that ice-creams are available for everyone!
In netflix’s case, the ice-cream is a movie. The nearby shop is a netflix machine that’s close to your home. You ask for a movie, and its served by a machine near your home.
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