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Case Study: Video Streaming Platform

Build upload, transcode, storage, and playback paths with CDN origin strategy and API control planes.

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Overview

Build upload, transcode, storage, and playback paths with CDN origin strategy and API control planes.

Video platforms require two distinct systems: ingest/transcode and playback/delivery.

You will build 9 architecture steps that model production dependencies.

You will run 1 failure experiment to observe bottlenecks and recovery behavior.

Success target: Uploads complete asynchronously while playback stays low-latency through CDN edge delivery.

Learning Objectives

  • Can explain end-to-end video ingest and playback architecture
  • Can defend CDN/object-storage origin strategy
  • Can discuss transcode queue sizing and operational risk

Prerequisites

  • Topic Hub: upload pipeline
  • Chapter 32: Case Study - Video Streaming
  • Prior Lab: Case Study: Notification Platform
  • Prior Lab: CDN & Edge: Global Content Delivery

Experiments

  1. Throttle transcode queue throughput and observe processing backlog

Failure Modes to Trigger

  • Trigger: Throttle transcode queue throughput and observe processing backlog

    Observe: Upload completion outpaces processing; videos remain in 'processing' for long periods and freshness SLOs fail.

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