Structured reference architectures for specific use cases — components, capacity sizing, security posture, compliance considerations. Read these before you talk to procurement.
Reference architecture for protecting premium video with Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady DRM. SPEKE-based key exchange, multi-DRM CMAF + CENC packaging, license server integration, key-rotation strategy, and the player-side compatibility matrix.
Reference architecture for production live video — SRT/RTMP/WebRTC contribution, live encoder pool, low-latency HLS packaging, origin caching, and CDN handoff. Latency math, capacity sizing, failure modes, and the design we're shipping for live in 2026 Q3.
Production architecture for running video transcoding on AWS Spot, GCP Preemptible, and Azure Spot instances. Interruption-tolerant queue topology, fleet diversification, atomic upload semantics, and the cost math that makes self-hosted video pipelines beat per-minute pricing at scale.
Production K8s topology for MpegFlow — API tier, shared workers via Helm, dedicated workers via Operator, KEDA queue-depth autoscaling, leader election, pool pause for cost savings.
How MpegFlow keeps tenant data isolated when workers run customer FFmpeg commands. Strict-broker model, presigned URLs, no credentials on workers, HMAC-signed webhooks.
Reference architecture for global broadcasters and OTT operators who can't afford a regional outage to take their video pipeline down. Active-active vs active-passive, manifest replication, CDN routing, regional sovereignty.
How to migrate a multi-petabyte legacy media archive to modern formats — throughput patterns, scheduling, cost optimization, deferral strategies, and what breaks at scale.
End-to-end reference architecture for a Tier-1 broadcaster running primary VOD encoding on MpegFlow. Components, capacity sizing, security posture, compliance, and rough cost order.