Designing a Service Like Netflix
In today’s digital age, video streaming services have revolutionized the way we consume entertainment. Netflix, one of the pioneers in this industry, has set a high bar for delivering a seamless and personalized video streaming experience to millions of users worldwide. Designing a service such as Netflix requires careful consideration of various aspects, including scalability, performance, user experience, and reliability.
In this chapter, we will delve into the system design principles and components necessary to build a robust and scalable video streaming service such as Netflix. To understand how to design a service such as Netflix, we will cover the following topics:
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Designing the data model
- Scale calculations
- High-level design
- Low-level design
By the end of this chapter, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the building blocks and design...
