Designing a Live‑Streaming Platform for 1.2 Million Concurrent Viewers
To support 1.2 million simultaneous viewers, the article details a three‑layer push‑stream‑transcode‑distribution architecture, SRT/WHIP protocols, AV1 GPU‑accelerated transcoding, multi‑CDN edge delivery, a scalable WebSocket message system, Kubernetes‑based auto‑scaling, and extensive performance tuning and disaster‑recovery strategies.
