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The Video Platform

Uploads that become a dozen renditions, a backlog that must not eat the fleet, storage tiers priced by how often a video is watched, delivery that pays per byte, abuse that costs real money, and the whole design under a viral clip.

Lessons
5
Exercises
29
Minutes
34

Start The Transcoding Pipeline

  1. 1

    The Transcoding Pipeline

    After this lesson you can size a transcoding fleet from upload rate and work per upload, split a long job into segments that fail and retry independently, and bound the backlog so a burst of uploads does not stall the platform.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  2. 2

    What a View Costs

    After this lesson you can put a number on storing and serving a video, tier storage by how often a video is watched, and decide which renditions to keep for a video nobody watches.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  3. 3

    Delivery, and the Bytes Nobody Should Get

    After this lesson you can serve segments through the CDN with signed URLs, stop a scraper from downloading the catalogue at your expense, and rate-limit uploads by the key that stops abuse without blocking a busy studio.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  4. 4

    Checkpoint: Video VariationsCheckpoint

    The same design under different numbers: a lecture platform, a short-clip app, and a private archive.

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    6 exercises
    6 min
  5. 5

    Boss: The Video PlatformBoss

    The whole design: the question, the numbers, the pipeline, the tiers and the gate, the viral clip, the backlog that idled the fleet, the revised pipeline, and the tradeoff you defend.

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    8 exercises
    10 min