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2 articles tagged streaming.
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Prime Video HLD: The Transcoding Pipeline Behind Streaming Video
How a streaming service prepares video: splitting a master into segments, fanning out parallel transcode jobs across a segment-by-rendition matrix, progressive playability, and serving from the edge.
8 min read
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Spotify HLD: Streaming Audio That Starts Fast and Never Stalls
A Spotify system design: storing audio as a chunked bitrate ladder in object storage behind a CDN, adaptive bitrate selection from bandwidth and buffer, the metadata model, and play history at scale.
9 min read