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Video: OTT Moves Toward Microservices

Posted on 31st January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Using microservices is a way of architecting your software platform to be nimble, simple and is just as applicable to on-premise platforms as cloud. As scaling is important for OTT providers, it’s not surprising that much work is being done in the OTT sector to utilise microservice architectures.

Even companies that are not yet actively operating on a microservices architecture are looking for vendors who at least have a strategy to cater to it for the future. This session will examine the core benefits (including redundancy, dev ops, scalability, and self-healing), the different approaches (including containerisation and orchestration via Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos, as well as native microservices models like Erlang), and the complexities of migrating a generic architecture to a microservices architecture.

This panel covers:

- Why is OTT so suited to microservices?
- How microservices enable companies to be flexible to changing customer demands
- How microservices reduce complexity
- Benefits of continuous deployment

plus much more!

Watch now!

Moderator: Dom Robinson, Director and Creative Firestarter – id3as, UK & Contributing Editor, StreamingMedia.com, UK

Stefan Lederer, CEO & Co-Founder – Bitmovin, USA

Steve Miller-Jones, Vice President of Product Strategy – Limelight Networks, UK

Xiaomei Lio, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Mark Russell, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, MediaKind

Olivier Karra, Directory of OTT & IPTV Solutions, Marketing, Harmonic Inc.

Webinar: CMAF Low Latency Webinar

Posted on 29th January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Jan 30th, 9am PT / 17:00 GMT
Now on demand!

Bitmovin presents a delve into CMAF – the new low-latency streaming protocol which promises online streaming latencies on-par with traditional broadcast.

Leaders in this space, Anevia, Bitmovin and Fastly come together to discuss whether the industry is in adopting CMAF, how you can implement it and how it works.

Watch now!

Top Video of 2018: HEVC vs AV1 and the Future of the Codec Battle

Posted on 4th January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

As the first post of 2019, please allow me to say Happy New Year and to thank you for the time you spend coming to the website, following by email and/or following on social media. Your visits, interest and recommendations are very important and highly appreciated. 2018 ended with being nominated for the Royal Television Society Website of the Year. Whilst the hardworking and knowledgable people at The Broadcast Bridge won, and deservedly so, I hope you’ll be as mighty pleased as I was to see a non-commercial site pitted against the best in the industry. Be assured that The Broadcast Knowledge always aims higher than before so what better motivation than to top that!

As we set our sights on 2019, there’s time for a brief look back at the top video linked to here on The Broadcast Knowledge in 2018. Looking back at the stats, it has the most page visits and the most clicks, so let’s revisit this panel on AV1 and HEVC. It’s not often you get the likes of Facebook and Harmonic sharing their latest research on stage with companies like Harmonic and Bitmovin who are very active in the Codec community, so it’s no surprise this piqued the interest of many.

This panel took place during NAB 2018 when AV1 had just ‘released’ the AV1 codec at the show but the points discussed are as relevant today as they were then including the adoption of HEVC in the marketplace. Having said that, do check out the AV1 and HEVC tags to see what more recent discussions there have been including a discussion of the future of video codecs at Streaming Media East 2018

Sit back and watch HEVC vs AV1 and the Future of the Codec Battle!

Speakers

	Moderator Jan Ozer Principal Doceo Publishing
	Mr Thierry Fautier VP, Video Strategy Harmonic
	Mike Coward Director of Engineering Facebook
	Christopher Mueller CTO BitMovin
	Matt Frost Head of Strategy and Partnerships Google Chrome Media

Video: VVC – the Next-Next Gen Codec

Posted on 18th December 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

VVC is a new standard going through MPEG standardisation which is being increasingly discussed. Dubbed the next, next-gen Codec, it promises to deliver many improvements over current Codecs.

Christian Feldmann from Bitmovin takes us through what’s new to help understand where the Codec is in its development, who is involved and how it’s going to achieve its aims. Covering also licensing

There’s a lot of work to do, but anyone who has an interest in Codecs should take some time to understand the work which is going on.