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Netflix Enhances Ads Event Pipeline for Live Streaming
To support high-volume live events, Netflix engineers have re-architected their advertising event publishing system using stateful stream processing with Apache Flink. This redesign replaces a critical synchronous database lookup with a real-time streaming join and a custom cross-region event routing mechanism. The new architecture eliminates single points of failure and effectively manages significant surges in concurrent viewers.
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