Netflix / Hulu System Architecture

Question

Does anyone know the Hulu or Netflix system architecture? How do they protect their content? How do they handle scalability with several million simultaneous subscribers while maintaining content security? A flow chart will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I would like to add that even though this article is dated (2011) that the NoSQL approach is mentioned (and used to use Datastax in Cassandra), it is still relevant today.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/nosql-at-netflix.html

Our cloud infrastructure has many different use cases that require structured storage access. Netflix is ​​using the right tool for the job. In this post, Id would like to address the reasons for our choice of three such NoSQL tools: SimpleDB, Hadoop / HBase, and Cassandra. interesting to read