Behind the Streams: Live at Netflix — 2025–10–22 Tokyo Video Tech #10 Session 2 Report

Most people know Netflix as the place you go to binge a series on a quiet evening. But since 2023, the company has been venturing into territory where there are no second takes — live streaming, at a scale that now reaches tens of millions of households simultaneously. At Tokyo Video Tech #10 “Continuous”, held on October 22, 2025 at the Netflix Tokyo office, members of Netflix’s live streaming team gave their first talk in Tokyo. They walked the audience through what it actually takes to pull off a live broadcast at Netflix scale: the multi-path signal routing from venue to Broadcast Operations Center, the cloud encoding pipeline designed so that entire regions can fail without viewers noticing, and the culture of relentless rehearsal — including deliberate failure injection — that turns each one-shot event into something the team has already practiced dozens of times. Report by: Katz Sakai Launched in 2023, Netflix’s live streaming service has grown — through continuous trial and ref