Douyu’s senior streaming engineer Zhou Sha details the company’s self‑developed P2P solution, covering its background, architecture, key technologies such as sub‑streaming, WebRTC, data slicing, SDK design, and the strategies used to boost sharing rates and future roadmap.
This article outlines a complete live video streaming architecture, covering the end‑to‑end pipeline, adaptive bitrate handling, player implementation, SDK layer management, message flow, channel comparisons, heartbeat mechanisms, bucket allocation strategies, risk control for large promotions, and platformization challenges, illustrated with detailed diagrams.
This article explains the fundamentals of video live streaming, covering terminology, bitrate, frames, key vs. non‑key frames, CDN caching strategies, and the end‑to‑end live streaming pipeline—including capture, preprocessing, encoding, pushing, transcoding, distribution, and playback—along with typical use‑case scenarios.
This article outlines Hulu's chief software architect Li Bin's 2017 Global Architect Summit talk, covering the design, scalability, low‑latency, and high‑definition live‑streaming system built on DASH, its architecture differences from traditional IPTV, and practical lessons for engineers.
This article examines Youku’s large‑scale system architecture, detailing its server fleet, LAMP‑based front‑end framework, evolving MySQL database designs from master‑slave replication to vertical partitioning and sharding, and its caching strategies and CDN deployment that together support over 1 billion daily users.
The interview with XiaoKaXiu CTO explains the end‑to‑end architecture of a video app, covering upload and playback pipelines, strategies for handling traffic spikes, mobile capture optimization, and multi‑region storage design to ensure security and fast access.
