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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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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Answer 1

For the technical gurus, netflix is using docker they have published several time about this https://netflixtechblog.com/the-evolution-of-container-usage-at-netflix-3abfc096781b