Blog
Notes from the pipeline
Engineering write-ups, product updates and the occasional deep dive into video internals.
Engineering
Why we moved from fixed ladders to per-title encoding
Fixed bitrate ladders waste bytes on simple content and starve complex scenes. Here's how per-title analysis cut our customers' delivery bills by a third.
Product
Low-latency HLS without throwing away your player
CMAF chunked transfer lets us cut glass-to-glass latency to ~3 seconds while staying compatible with every HLS player. A walk through the trade-offs.
Security
Designing playback tokens that survive the real world
Short-lived, IP-pinned, geo-aware — and still cacheable. How we built signed playback that doesn't break the CDN.