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Case Study: Video Streaming
Design, trade-offs, and alternatives for a video streaming platform at scale.
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Chapter One
Problem Statement
Problem Statement
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Problem Statement
This chapter covers video platform scale: uploads per day, concurrent viewers, storage at petabyte scale, streaming latency SLA.
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Chapter Two
Questions to Ask
Questions to Ask
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Questions to Ask
This chapter covers key questions: live vs on-demand, supported formats, adaptive bitrate, geographic distribution.
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Chapter Three
Naive Design
Naive Design
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Naive Design
This chapter covers single server streaming raw video files and why it fails under any meaningful load.
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Chapter Four
Refined Design
Refined Design
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Refined Design
This chapter covers upload pipeline with async transcoding, multi-CDN delivery, and ABR with multiple resolutions.
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Chapter Five
Alternatives
Alternatives
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Alternatives
This chapter covers two approaches: building your own CDN vs third-party CDN — trade-offs in cost, control, and scale.
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Chapter Six
Real Companies
Real Companies
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Real Companies
This chapter covers how YouTube, Netflix, and Twitch architect their video delivery infrastructure.
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Chapter Seven
Best Practices
Best Practices
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Best Practices
This chapter covers chunked upload with resumability, pre-signed URLs, adaptive bitrate for poor connections.
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Chapter Eight
What Could Go Wrong
What Could Go Wrong
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What Could Go Wrong
This chapter covers transcoding bottlenecks, CDN cache miss storms on popular video publish, subtitle sync failures.
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