I've been an active participant and benefactor of web2 over the last 10 years. Worked for most of the major web2 companies including the likes of Microsoft, Akamai, Oracle & Google. Nothing has gotten me more excited than web3, which I've deliberate...
In the last post, we discussed the various cloud native ways of building and running your VOD transcoding workflow. In this post, we will talk about why separating the encoding and packaging workflows is a good practice for VOD delivery. In today’s w...
In the last post, we talked about building an event driven workflow for a basic transcoding use case (mp4 to webm conversion). Today, we are going to implement a h.264 transcoder which will package media content for online streaming such as DASH and ...
If you are on this blog, you are either casually dabbling with the idea of building your own video solutions or seriously evaluating some practical options. Well, I won’t go as far as saying you have come to the right place, but this can be a good st...
In my previous blog post, we saw why and how we can run Bitmovin encoding jobs on GCP. We also saw how video file-based transcoding workflows on GCP can be set up using Bitmovin solutions to convert source media into output formats. Once you start us...
People who run video streaming platforms typically have four major concerns How do we get the content online faster? How do we reduce my video transcoding costs while retaining the quality? How do we reduce my CDN Egress bills? How to simplify workf...
Recently, as part of a home project , I was looking to find some market intelligence on CDNs, Web traffic performance and user activity behaviour. As it turns out, most of the market intelligence reports on CDNs and Web Traffic are either paid subscr...
Addressing the consumer experience You can’t run a business without customers. In today’s world of rapidly increasing customer demands, almost every business swears by the adage, “Customer is King”. Someone might argue saying, “Employee is king, not ...
From being a pet owner to becoming a Herdsman So we’ve finally got our own little golden retriever pup back home. Her name is Barfi. It has been a roller coaster of a month so far. Life is changing and changing rapidly with every passing day having i...
