The group was kicked out, and low presence means they are bad?

Netflix Technology Division.

The other side of the office area.

The system operation and maintenance team is completely in a state of panic at this moment.

Intern Tony Lee is a 24-year-old young man. Although he has only been working for three months, he has already optimized the traffic distribution model for the third season of "The Witcher" and has done it quite successfully.

He can be said to be a very strong young man.

However, tonight, Tony Lee was like a headless fly, staring at the server's delay data, at a loss as to what to do.

On the screen, the average delay in the entire Asian region jumped from 0.2 seconds to 0.5 seconds, and many users even reported video freezes.

Tony Li refreshed the page several times, suspecting that there was something wrong with the system.

Until Mark, a senior employee next to him, patted him on the shoulder and said, "No need to swipe, this is not a bug, there are just too many people."

"too many people?"

Tony Lee's eyes widened. "What kind of people would cause this to happen?"

"Don't ask me, I don't know either." Mark shook his head.

He is a veteran in his forties, and you can tell at first glance that he is a skilled technician because his Mediterranean hairstyle is so eye-catching.

Mark took over Tony Lee's screen and pulled up a global load graph of Netflix's servers.

The red dots in the picture have begun to spread like a virus.

First Seoul was overloaded, then Busan.

Tokyo is close behind and approaching the critical value, and Seattle also has a yellow light.

Even areas like Sao Paulo, Brazil, which normally have alarmingly low traffic, have issued warnings.

Mark frowned and quickly picked up his phone to make a call: "Susan! Tell James that our server must be expanded urgently, otherwise the global server channels may face the risk of collapse!"

Mark held the phone between his neck and typed frantically on the keyboard.

……

On the other side, Susan had already passed on what Mark had said.

She was also busy in front of a computer, sweating profusely.

On Twitter, the discussion of the topic #SquidGame# has reached an unprecedented high.

Even #Endless# was surpassed.

Susan flipped through the comments from netizens:

[I have been watching it since noon and I can’t stop! 】

[“Squid Game” really scared me in the first episode! ]

[Who understands the marbles game in episode 6? I am crying my eyes out! ]

[The sixth episode is really touching. I didn’t expect that a TV series like “Squid Game” that pursues excitement could actually produce such profound content. It’s really awesome! ]

Susan took a deep breath as she looked at the heated discussions among many netizens on Twitter.

After a while, she said loudly to her colleagues: "Tell the marketing team not to promote Squidward Games anymore! Wait until the server expansion is complete before promoting it! This is too scary!"

When the marketing department received the news, they were stunned.

No. Do we have anyone here promoting Squidward Games?

Not at all, okay?

……

"Oh my god! The number of concurrent users of Squidward has reached 7 million, and it is still increasing!"

Carl held his head in his hands and looked at the data, his face full of disbelief.

"what?!"

Raj, who was still doing relevant calculations in front of the whiteboard, was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"I feel like this is no longer something we can control. We need to get the boss here quickly."

"Yes, yes, we have to call the boss over!"

"The show "Squid Game" is really going to be amazing!"

"There are already seven million viewers watching online simultaneously, and this is only the first day!"

"This is simply a miracle!"

"Boss? Here we are..."

In the office, someone quickly contacted the boss.

In the current situation of Squidward, there are many important decisions that are no longer decided by these engineers.

……

James Hall is the head of technology at Netflix.

Before coming to the technical department's office, he had just finished a Netflix global operations meeting.

He was having a good meeting, but then something like this happened to his employees?

James, dressed in a suit, pushed open the glass door of the office area, holding a report that had been placed on his desk, his face livid.

As soon as he walked in, he yelled, "Can someone tell us what the hell is going on with Corea's Squidward Game?"

Under the gaze of everyone in the office.

James, with beads of sweat on his forehead, tugged at the tie under his neck, then took off his suit and rolled up his shirt sleeves to his elbows.

After doing all this, James took a deep breath, then slammed the report on the table and said angrily:

"Who made the forecast? It says that Squidward is expected to be watched by 20 million households in the first month. Huh, 20 million in the first month?"

James was so angry that he laughed, "It's only been one day and Squidward is almost breaking 20 million!"

After venting his emotions, James waved his hand and said, "Go ahead and get busy. Finish what you need to do first."

After these words were spoken, everyone in the office went back to their respective duties.

Carl continued to make calls, asking suppliers to add servers.

Raj was also writing formulas on the whiteboard to calculate bandwidth.

Emily returned to her desk and began typing code and running algorithms.

Susan is still keeping an eye on the performance of Squidward Games on social platforms.

Looking at the people who were busy in the blink of an eye, James smiled bitterly: "I guess we will have to work overtime tonight..."

After he finished speaking, he came to the two LED screens.

Looking at the crazy statistics above, James shook his head and smacked his lips:
"Squid Game, ah Squid Game, you really are good at giving people surprises!"

……

Early in the morning.

The office area of ​​Netflix's technology department is a bit messy.

Empty pizza boxes, coffee cups, crumpled paper towels and other miscellaneous items filled the desk.

Compared to the tense and urgent feeling of the previous few hours, everyone was much more relaxed at this moment.

They each collapsed in their own office chairs to rest and recuperate.

"I haven't been this busy in a long time. I feel like I'm alive again!" someone joked. "I've only experienced this kind of thing more than a decade ago when House of Cards was aired, but the conditions were not as good as they are now, and the department's structure was not particularly mature, so solving that crisis was like running a half marathon. I was really exhausted."

"Carl, are you saying that Squidward is on par with House of Cards?"

“Although it’s hard to say based on the first day’s data, Squidward Games does have the potential.”

“It feels like it’s only a matter of time before Squidward surpasses the success of House of Cards.”

"Why? I feel like the show Squidward is a niche one. How come so many people are watching it?"

Someone asked this question in the field.

Carl was also confused about this. He didn't understand, he really didn't understand.

At this moment, Emily ran out of her office, holding a stack of printed data in her hand, and shouted:
"I reran the model and came to a very scary conclusion."

Under everyone's surprised and expectant gazes, Emily said: "The spread coefficient of "Squidward Fever" is even higher than that of "Game of Thrones"!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the voice of "Wang Defa" was heard in the venue, one after another.

……

Neon, Tokyo.

While Carl and his group were still roaming under the starlight of America, Kitayama Ya and his group were already basking in the midday sunlight.

"According to the gossip from Netflix last night, Netflix's servers almost crashed today because of a drama."

In the conference room, Kitayama Masa was very excited when he said this, "I feel 99% that it is because of our "Never Ending"."

The reason why Masa Kitayama is so sure is that there are only a few TV series launched on Netflix at the same time as "Limitless".

None of them can be compared to "Limitless".

"Really? There is actually such news coming out?" Jingdao called out, still a little confused at this time.

Last night, because the performance of "Never Ending" after its launch was so satisfactory, Kitayama Masaru and his team held a celebration party late at night.

Although not like the audience in Japan who stayed up all night just to watch the drama.

But when it comes to alcohol, Kitayama Masaru and others almost drank a lot.

When you are happy, you naturally need wine to cheer you up.

This caused everyone who came to work today, including Kitayama Masaru himself, to feel a little light-headed.

Combined with the good news from Netflix, Kitayama Masa felt like he was in the clouds.

What a great word for "shuang".

"I got the news from a good friend."

Bei Shan Ya nodded with a smile, "Although it's not very clear, it's definitely authentic."

“Not bad, not bad!”

Jingdao exclaimed with emotion: "Now the whole world can probably feel the outstanding strength of our country through Netflix, the international streaming platform giant."

Listening to their conversation, many people in the conference room looked excited.

They were all fantasizing about what would happen if Limitless became an international hit.

However, there were still a few people at the conference table who looked unhappy. Even when they looked at other people around them, there were some strange expressions on their faces.

And these unique people happened to not attend the celebration party of "Limitless" last night.

The few people who did not attend the celebration banquet whispered:

"Is the show that caused Netflix's server to crash really our "Limitless"? Why does it feel a bit different to me?"

"From Twitter last night, it seems that Squidward Gaming is going crazy, right? The popularity of the discussion is directly ranked first, completely crushing Limitless."

"Do you think Miss Kitayama Miyabi is still drunk and mistook "Squid Game" for "Endless"?"

"It's possible. There's a very high possibility that this is the case!"

"So what should we do? Should we remind her?"

"How do I remind them of this? It's not easy to remind them, right?"

"Yes, if we remind them now, we might get scolded. Anyway, we don't know what the gossip is about, so we just need to follow their pace. There will be no problem."

"That's a good idea!"

Due to Kitayama Ya's usual majesty, these people didn't say anything and blended well into the joyful atmosphere of the conference room.

……

Corea.

Seoul, Gangnam-gu.

In a luxurious large flat.

Although it was already noon, Bai Xingjian had just woken up from bed.

There was nothing they could do about it. Yesterday, in order to watch "Squid Game" with Feng Shiqi and Mei Jie, the three of them stayed up until four in the morning.

Later, they couldn't bear it any longer, so they finished watching the third episode of "Squid Game" and then went back to their respective rooms to sleep.

As a result, when Bai Xingjian got up and went to the living room today, he saw Mei Jie already sitting on the sofa, watching "Squid Game".

"Mei Jie, aren't you too proactive?" Bai Xingjian gave Mei Jie a thumbs up.

Mei Jie laughed and said, "Of course not. I want to support you, Brother Xingjian! So I got up early this morning to help you brush up the data for Squid Game."

"Yeah, early in the morning. It's already past twelve o'clock and still early in the morning."

Bai Xingjian teased, then asked, "What do you want to eat for lunch today? I'll order takeout."

If the show "Squid Game" hadn't been released yet, someone would definitely be cooking for it.

But "Squid Game" is already online, and I guess the cooks don't have the heart to cook anymore.

"Order whatever you want. Anything is fine with me." Mei Jie said casually without even looking at Bai Xingjian.

Bai Xingjian sneered. Was he being disliked?
After hearing his laughter, Mei Jie turned around and looked at him: "Brother Xing Jian, I'm just helping your Squid Game to increase its popularity. Don't think I find you annoying."

Bai Xingjian hummed a few times and said jokingly, "If you hadn't said that, I probably wouldn't have thought that way, but now that you said it, I have no choice but to think that way."

Finally, he added: "But Squid Game doesn't need to increase its popularity now, because it's already popular enough."

When he got up, Bai Xingjian checked Twitter for a while and naturally discovered a lot of things.

The drama "Squid Game" spread faster than he expected.

Originally, Bai Xingjian thought that due to the competition from "Limitless" and "Spirit Lord", "Squid Game" would at least start to gain momentum after a week.

As it turned out, in less than half a day, or less than twelve hours, Squid Game began to exert its strength, and its strength was not small.

This really surprised Bai Xingjian.

In today's public opinion field, it is finally his turn to stand at the commanding heights.

"Are you sure?"

Mei Jie looked at Bai Xingjian in disbelief, "Brother Xingjian, are you really sure? Is the popularity of Squid Game high enough? I mean, is the popularity of Squid Game high enough to match that of Spiritual Lord and Endless? It's hard, right?"

Bai Xingjian looked at Mei Jie with eyes that showed concern for a mentally retarded child.

Well, this girl must not have checked Twitter when she woke up today, otherwise she wouldn't have said such stupid things.

After all, on Twitter, the popularity of "Squidward" has already surpassed "Never Ending", and the margin of victory is quite large. (End of this chapter)