Presentation: Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

Netflix embeds prioritized load shedding in its Envoy sidecar proxy to survive extreme traffic spikes. User-initiated requests steal capacity from non-critical traffic. Automated platform strategies handle continuous chaos load testing, config generation, and retry storm mitigation. Engineers Anirudh Mendiratta and Benjamin Fedorka presented the architecture.