Engineering write-ups

Case studies — page 2

Older write-ups, 8 in total across 2 pages.

Architecture27 May 20262 min read

Live and on-demand want opposite things

A stadium-scale live surge and a fifteen-year archive have opposite cache behaviour, opposite failure tolerance and opposite cost profiles. Most platforms are built for exactly one of them.

live
vod
broadcast
capacity

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Observability8 May 20262 min read

The servers were fine and playback was not

Infrastructure monitoring will tell you the edge is healthy and the origin is responding. It cannot tell you that viewers on one mobile network are rebuffering every ninety seconds, because from the server's side every one of those requests succeeded.

telemetry
qoe
monitoring

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