What a difference a year makes.When Netflix secured WWE Raw, a three-hour weekly live broadcast with more than three decades of history, it marked a turning point. Raw is chaos in motion: fan-fueled, unpredictable, impossible to rehearse. And no...

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Netflix built a dedicated live streaming infrastructure to deliver WWE Raw weekly, using dual ingest redundancy, CMAF/HLS segments, wall-clock aligned manifests, adaptive encoding ladders, and their Open Connect CDN with 18,000 servers globally. The technical challenges include start-time surges, origin contention, device diversity, and regional edit synchronization. This sets a new baseline for live streaming resilience that applies across industries like healthcare, finance, and entertainment, where stability and observability are critical to user experience.

WWE and Netflix Go Live, Loud, and (Hopefully) Unbreakable