Apps on every screen
Responsive web, iOS and Android phone apps, and television apps for Android TV and tvOS — sharing one backend and one analytics pipeline.
A streaming service, not a stack of parts
Catalogue, search, entitlements, billing, DRM, live channels, analytics and native apps for web, phone and television. Assembled once already, running in production, and deployable into your estate as a system rather than an integration project.
The integration is the hard part, and it is already done
Every component of a streaming service exists as a product you can buy. The reason launches slip is never that a piece was unavailable — it is that fifteen pieces from eleven vendors have to agree about identity, entitlement, encryption and playback state, and none of them were designed to.
This platform was built as one system by one team, and it runs a live consumer service. The catalogue knows what the entitlement service knows. The player reports into the same analytics the operations team watches. The token the edge checks is the token the auth service issued. That coherence is not a feature list item; it is the difference between a launch date and a hope.
What ships
Billing that matches the business
Subscriptions, pay-per-view, free tiers and coupons, with entitlements enforced at the edge rather than trusted in the client.
Catalogue and live
Ingest, metadata, search, recommendations and scheduling — with live channels and a VOD back catalogue running through the same pipeline.
Encryption and DRM
Every stream encrypted, keys released only against signed expiring tokens, and the edge re-checking on every segment rather than once at playback start.
Admin and analytics
An operations console for the catalogue, users, revenue and live channels, plus per-session playback telemetry from every player.
The estate underneath
Whichever deployment pattern fits — on-premises, hybrid or AWS — declared in Terraform and shipped by a GitOps pipeline from the first day.
The usual starting architecture
Most launches start here — elastic where it helps, owned where it bills.
Untrusted — the public internet
- Web player
- Mobile apps
- TV apps
- DNS
No media byte is ever served from here
- Load balancer
- Platform APIs
- session-authz
- Managed database
- Object storage
- CDN
Every media byte leaves from here
- traefik-edge
- CrowdSec
- Live path
- VOD path
The bytes never enter a metered path
- live-transcode
- live-origin
- vod-transcode + GPU
- vod-origin-cache
- MinIO
- key-delivery
- OpenBao
- ClickHouse
The same pipeline provisions AWS and the metal
- Proxmox VE
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Cost controls
- Prometheus
- Grafana
How a launch runs
Discovery & HLD
Catalogue, concurrency, territories, licensing constraints and the date. Out of it comes an architecture and a sizing you can take to a board.
Estate build
Terraform first. The environment is reproducible from Git before anything is installed on it, which is what makes the rest predictable.
Platform & content
Services deployed, catalogue ingested, encoding ladder tuned to your material, apps branded and submitted to the stores.
Load, then launch
Tested at the concurrency you expect, not the concurrency that is convenient. Runbooks written against the real estate before the first viewer arrives.
The things people ask first
Can we use our own branding and design?
Yes. The apps and web front end are branded to you. The architecture and the pipeline are the shared part; the surface a viewer sees is yours.
What about content licensing and DRM requirements?
AES-128 covers a great deal of independent and regional content. Where a studio agreement requires a licensed DRM, that is integrated — it changes the key path, not the architecture.
Do you handle the app store submissions?
Yes, including the parts that reliably surprise first-time publishers — reviewer sign-in accounts, account-deletion pages, data-safety declarations and the release pipeline itself.
Tell us what you want to launch
Catalogue size, expected concurrency, live or on-demand, and the date it needs to be live. That is enough for a first architecture and an honest timeline.