How Does Netflix Handle Millions Of Users Without Crashing

Netflix pays engineers to randomly destroy their own servers while millions of real users are watching. On purpose. Every single day.

This counterintuitive engineering decision — called Chaos Engineering — is one of the main reasons Netflix almost never crashes. In this video I also explain CDNs, auto-scaling, and load balancing, and how they work together to keep one of the world's largest platforms running smoothly.

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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 The scale problem: millions streaming at once
00:08 How Netflix avoids crashes
00:20 CDN — content served from nearby servers
00:38 Multi-region servers (failover)
00:52 Chaos Engineering — breaking things on purpose
01:08 Auto-scaling — servers that grow with demand
01:20 Why this architecture matters

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