Hard Design: Video Streaming Platform (YouTube/Netflix)

What metric best indicates whether your video streaming quality is good?

— Tests your understanding of this concept.

Answer Options

A Total bytes served

B Rebuffer rate (percentage of sessions with playback stalls)

C Number of unique viewers

D CDN cache hit rate

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