--- title: System Design: Netflix | daily.dev description: Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that allows its members to watch TV shows and movies on an internet-connected device. The system should meet... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-netflix-1hqhewixr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: System Design: Netflix | daily.dev og:description: Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that allows its members to watch TV shows and movies on an internet-connected device. The system should meet... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-netflix-1hqhewixr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1HQHEWIXR.png og:image:alt: System Design: Netflix 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. # System Design: Netflix **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · [@karan_6864](https://daily.dev/karan_6864) · 12 min read · 345 upvotes · 14 comments ## Summary Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that allows its members to watch TV shows and movies on an internet-connected device. The system should meet the following requirements: Users should be able to stream and share videos. This API will allow our users to post a comment on a video (like YouTube) The tweet service will handle video streaming-related functionality. It will be discussed in detail separately. ## 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. **@fabrikat** · 1 upvotes > Interesting summary for sure - but calling it a 'complete course' on system design may be a bit of a stretch... **@yellow\_cmd** · 0 upvotes > Amazing article, also links to other topics are top notch **@samroot** · 0 upvotes > COol > :D **@julianasantos** · 0 upvotes > Awesome! :) **@star\_knight\_\_\_** · 0 upvotes > Masterpiece. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#amazon](https://daily.dev/tags/amazon), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#netflix](https://daily.dev/tags/netflix), [#nosql](https://daily.dev/tags/nosql), [#aws-s3](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-s3) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-netflix-1hqhewixr) ```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":"System Design: Netflix","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-netflix-1hqhewixr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-netflix-1hqhewixr"},"datePublished":"2022-09-25T04:01:25.822Z","dateModified":"2022-09-25T04:01:25.758Z","description":"Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that allows its members to watch TV shows and movies on an internet-connected device. 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