Jake Paul just beat Mike Tyson but the real knockout was Netflix's streaming service here's what happened when thousands of people tried to watch this historic fight at the exact same time during the match thousands of users reported outages frustrated and staring at loading screens but this isn't just about a glitchy stream it's about the crazy technical challenge of live sports streaming when you watch your favorite show Netflix uses content delivery networks servers spread worldwide that store copies of shows near you but live streaming that's a whole different game the video has to be encoded transmitted
and distributed in real time with almost zero delay plus there's adaptive bit rate streaming which tries to adjust video quality based on everyone's internet speed simultaneously what's fascinating is that other streaming platforms like hot star in India regularly handle these kinds of huge crowds for cricket matches we're talking millions of concurrent viewers this shows how much engineering expertise goes into making these massive live streams work so next time your stream buffers during a big event remember you're witnessing the internet's infrastructure being pushed to its absolute limits it's pretty wild that we're still learning how to
handle these massive digital crowds
