Throttling is a strategy to keep your application running smoothly during high-traffic periods by managing how many incoming requests they process at a time.
Imagine it’s the premiere night of a highly anticipated show on a streaming platform like Netflix. Millions of users are hitting play at the same time.
Instead of crashing under the surge, the platform manages the flow: buffering some streams momentarily, prioritizing high-quality playback for premium subscribers, and temporarily delaying less critical features like loading recommendations to keep the core experience seamless.
That’s throttling in a nutshell.
This month’s Tech Term You Should Know introduces how throttling works and how you, as a PM, can collaborate with engineers to prioritize critical actions and ensure seamless performance for high-value users.
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🚀 Task 2 Accomplished: Netflix Clone Website Completed! 🎉
Thrilled to share the latest milestone in my development journey. Built a fully functional Netflix clone, featuring user authentication, movie browsing, and streaming. Excited for the next steps and to keep honing my skills!
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8/10, your product isn’t great.
Netflix didn’t assume they knew what users wanted.
Instead:
-They dove deep into user data and feedback.
-Pivoted from DVD rentals to streaming.
-Then moved to content creation.
Each step was guided by a clear understanding of their customers’ evolving needs.
Reading this, you might be thinking: Why isn’t my product great?
It comes down to this…
If you’re making assumptions about what your users want without talking to them, you’re walking on thin ice.
Assumptions are costly.
They lead to wasted time.
They lead to wasted resources.
So, before you roll out that next big update or feature, take a step back.
Roast yourself and ask these questions:
Are you building based on assumptions?
Are you building based on your wife thinking your idea is cool?
Or are you building based on real user feedback?
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Exploring the Netflix Tech Stack!
Here's an overview of the technology that powers Netflix. From front-end tools like React and Kotlin to back-end technologies like Spring Boot and Cassandra, it’s inspiring to see how Netflix manages data, streaming, and CI/CD.
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It's Friday November 15th. Tonight is the night that Mike Tyson and Jake Paul step in the ring together and battle it out.
During this time I can't help but think of the engineering behind the scenes at Netflix that make this all possible.
Massive Concurrent Viewership: Unlike a typical Netflix binge, where viewers start watching at different times, live events like tonight's fight draw millions of users simultaneously. This concentrated demand requires infrastructure capable of scaling instantly to accommodate massive traffic spikes.
Low Latency: Viewers expect live streams to be real-time or very close to it. Buffering during a climactic knockout could result in public outrage, amplified by social media.
Global Reach: A Tyson fight is a worldwide Live event, which means Netflix must ensure smooth streaming across regions with vastly different internet speeds and network conditions.
Dynamic Bandwidth Management: For live streaming, adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) is crucial. Netflix needs to seamlessly adjust stream quality in real time to match each viewer's bandwidth.
While Netflix has mastered on-demand streaming, successfully delivering a live event like the Tyson fight could mark a turning point for their platform. #Netflix#SRE#devops#alerting#infrastructure#scaling
Tech News Update! The world's fastest internet speed has been recorded at an incredible 178 terabits per second. This astonishing speed is enough to download the entire Netflix library in just one second! 🌐💨 Stay tuned for more groundbreaking tech updates.
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Don't Give up your Dream , We started with DVD
Netflix's journey from a DVD rental service to a global streaming giant is a testament to innovation and perseverance. The company's motto, "Don't give up your dream; we started with DVD," encapsulates this transformation. Initially, Netflix revolutionized home entertainment by offering DVDs by mail, challenging traditional video rental models. As technology evolved, so did Netflix, embracing streaming technology to deliver content directly to viewers' screens. Today, Netflix's sophisticated system architecture, including components like CDN, blob storage, and adaptive algorithms, supports a seamless user experience. This evolution underscores Netflix's commitment to adapting and leading in the digital entertainment landscape.
Update: The real fight was behind the scenes: Netflix’s streaming infrastructure battling massive demand, low latency expectations, and global reach.
Here’s the thing—this wasn’t just a live event. This was a chaos engineering experiment at scale, with real stakes, real users, and real-time failures.
I was trying to compare this to other large streaming events that was offered by other stream services - Boxing vs. Football and the Olympics in Streaming Popularity
Boxing, as a globally recognized sport, can draw substantial international audiences, especially for high-profile matches like Paul vs. Tyson. In contrast, American football, while immensely popular in the United States, has a more limited international following. Therefore, it's plausible that the Tyson fight garnered more concurrent global streams than the AFC Championship last year and the upcoming Netflix Football steams.
The Olympics, however, are a worldwide event with a vast array of sports appealing to diverse audiences. While Peacock's streaming strategy involved multiple concurrent live event streams, the platform's peak concurrent viewership for a single event may not have reached the 65 million mark observed during the Tyson fight.
Some other thoughts: Users reported, myself included, that they had better luck streaming the fight on their mobile device with 5g. So I'm wondering if the CDN prioritized device type, app type, data network, or a combination of all of the above to ensure they reach the larges number of users possible.
What does it mean for SRE's? It’s a whole new game for SREs—and one worth mastering. When it comes to live streaming events, the traditional approach to SRE, SLIs, and SLOs gets flipped on its head. Unlike on-demand services, live streams demand ultra-low latency, handle massive concurrent spikes, and deliver a consistent experience across the globe—all in real time.
What was your experience like? What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear them.
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It's Friday November 15th. Tonight is the night that Mike Tyson and Jake Paul step in the ring together and battle it out.
During this time I can't help but think of the engineering behind the scenes at Netflix that make this all possible.
Massive Concurrent Viewership: Unlike a typical Netflix binge, where viewers start watching at different times, live events like tonight's fight draw millions of users simultaneously. This concentrated demand requires infrastructure capable of scaling instantly to accommodate massive traffic spikes.
Low Latency: Viewers expect live streams to be real-time or very close to it. Buffering during a climactic knockout could result in public outrage, amplified by social media.
Global Reach: A Tyson fight is a worldwide Live event, which means Netflix must ensure smooth streaming across regions with vastly different internet speeds and network conditions.
Dynamic Bandwidth Management: For live streaming, adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) is crucial. Netflix needs to seamlessly adjust stream quality in real time to match each viewer's bandwidth.
While Netflix has mastered on-demand streaming, successfully delivering a live event like the Tyson fight could mark a turning point for their platform. #Netflix#SRE#devops#alerting#infrastructure#scaling
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