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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Just to add to the answers already given. Half a million people watching the same content isn’t as stressful to the system as OP might assume. In fact, its the opposite (because it can use the cached data). A worst case scenario for Netflix would be the very opposite, loads of people all watching **different** things.
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