Why OTT platforms crash and what it teaches us about traffic surges
Minutes after the newest episodes of a beloved series dropped, a well-known streaming OTT (over-the-top) platform crashed. The impact was instant: streams wouldn’t load, logins failed, and users across regions started refreshing their screens, wondering if the issue was on their end. Outages like this don’t often happen, especially for an engineered and distributed platform—which is precisely why this incident caught attention.