Live delivery, an editor-run content system and one player across every screen — shipped to a fixed launch date, with buffering treated as a bug, not a network fact of life.
YourBackers needed a video platform with live delivery, content management and multi-device playback — and the audience would judge it in the first ten seconds of a stream.
Playback had to degrade gracefully on a weak connection instead of stalling — and the editorial team had to run publishing without an engineer on call.
Three decisions shaped the build. Each one is a bet we can explain.
HLS with per-segment bitrate switching, so playback drops to a lower resolution rather than stalling. The stream keeps moving on the connection the viewer actually has.
Publishing, scheduling and access control without an engineer in the loop. The people who make the content also ship it.
A single web player abstraction across desktop, mobile web and TV browsers — one place to fix a bug, one behaviour to reason about.
A small, named squad and a two-week rhythm — the same people, a demo you attend, and no surprises at launch.
SAME ENGINEERS THROUGHOUT · PR REVIEWED BEFORE MERGE · A DEMO EVERY SECOND FRIDAY
The section enterprise buyers read first.
Every stream is served with signed URLs and short-lived tokens; the origin sits shielded behind a CDN.
Capacity-tested to [TO CONFIRM] concurrent viewers so the launch spike was a rehearsal, not a gamble.
Edge caching keeps start times low and shields the origin from repeat demand.
HLS because it degrades gracefully on real networks, a CDN because the audience is everywhere, and one React codebase so a fix lands once. Proven technology on the path that must not fail.
They shipped on the date, and the launch stream did not stutter once. Our editors publish without waiting on an engineer — that alone changed how fast we move.
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