How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play

[crazyharsh96]

Hundreds of microservices, one giant service

Let us just try to understand how Netflix is structured on the technological side with a simple example.

Let’s just assume that the Maps app on your phone tracks your location all the time and saves complex information about everywhere you go in a file, locations.txt. And you end up creating an app called LocoList, that, provided there’s a Maps app on your phone, looks for this locations.txt file and shows all the places recorded in that file in a simple list. It works flawlessly...

Read More: https://medium.com/refraction-tech-everything/how-netflix-works-the-hugely-simplified-complex-stuff-that-happens-every-time-you-hit-play-3a40c9be254b

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