Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed SystemThe rest of this post provides a more technical deep-dive into how our API and other systems isolate failure, shed load and remain resilient to failures. Fault Tolerance is a Requirement, Not a FeatureThe Netflix API receives more than 1 billion incoming calls per day which in turn fans out to several billion outgoing calls (averaging a ratio of 1:6) to dozens of underlying subsystems with peaks o
