The Question
Design
Video-on-Demand Streaming Service
Design a large-scale video-on-demand streaming service similar to Netflix. The system should handle content ingestion and encoding, adaptive bitrate streaming via a global CDN, personalized recommendations, and concurrent playback for hundreds of millions of subscribers.
CDN
S3
Transcoding (FFmpeg)
Cassandra
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (HLS/DASH)
February 11, 2026