--- title: Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding description: Netflix has introduced priority-based progressive load shedding. While the lower priority requests are throttled, the playback experience remains... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-prioritized-load-shedding-2lfjsufpy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding | daily.dev og:description: Netflix has introduced priority-based progressive load shedding. While the lower priority requests are throttled, the playback experience remains... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-prioritized-load-shedding-2lfjsufpy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2LFJsUFpy.png og:image:alt: Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding **[Netflix TechBlog](https://daily.dev/sources/netflix)** · 8 min read · 29 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Netflix has introduced priority-based progressive load shedding. While the lower priority requests are throttled, the playback experience remains uninterrupted. The animation below shows the behavior of the Netflix viewer experience when the backend is throttling traffic based on priority. The higher priority requests will get preferential treatment, while the lowerpriority requests will not. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rahxul** · 1 upvotes > Netflix and chill at STOP🤣 **@idoshamun** · 0 upvotes > Netflix technology always amazes me! 🤯 --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-prioritized-load-shedding-2lfjsufpy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-prioritized-load-shedding-2lfjsufpy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-prioritized-load-shedding-2lfjsufpy"},"datePublished":"2020-11-06T02:41:39.059Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Netflix has introduced priority-based progressive load shedding. 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