I thoroughly appreciated this article as I've been building a short-form video content streaming service and the performance hasn't been what I expected.
Granted, I knew that my service needs to be able to scale at different bottlenecks, but a lot of "build your own video service!" tutorials start with:
- Build a backend, return a video file
- Build a frontend, embed the video
And that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of performance. I think the actual steps should be:
- Build a backend that consists of:
- Video Ingestion service
- Video Upload / Processing Service that saves the video into chunks
- Build a streaming service that returns video chunks
- Build a frontend that consists of:
- Build or use a video streaming library that can play video chunks as a stream
Edit: From the author's links, I found this website which is very informative:
https://howvideo.works/
Granted, I knew that my service needs to be able to scale at different bottlenecks, but a lot of "build your own video service!" tutorials start with:
- Build a backend, return a video file
- Build a frontend, embed the video
And that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of performance. I think the actual steps should be:
- Build a backend that consists of:
- Build a frontend that consists of: Edit: From the author's links, I found this website which is very informative: https://howvideo.works/