Broadcast

Broadcast video infrastructure has different SLAs than UGC video. The articles and architectures here address what changes at broadcast scale: the on-call posture, the audit-trail expectations from contractual delivery, the multi-region failover that actually has to work, and the broadcast-grade VOD pipelines that ship 4K masters to ABR ladders without compromising QC. For staff engineers and architects at broadcast and OTT operators.

Reference architectures · 1

Broadcast-grade VOD transcoding on MpegFlow
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.
May 5, 2026

Engineering blog · 1

Broadcast video workflow orchestration: build vs buy in 2026
An honest decision framework for broadcasters and OTT engineering teams choosing between building video workflow orchestration in-house and buying it. The build case, the buy case, and why most teams end up doing both.
May 9, 2026

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