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Over the last year, RapidStream has faced and overcome some of the most significant challenges in video streaming. From optimizing performance to managing sudden traffic surges, here’s how we built a scalable and reliable platform, as detailed in our recent blog posts and milestones.

In today's streaming landscape, bursts have become an all-too-familiar phenomenon. These sudden spikes in traffic can be triggered by events like popular sports games or major conferences. While your infrastructure may be able to handle normal day-to-day requests, it's often woefully unprepared for the massive influx of users that comes with a burst.

As we take a break from attending IBC this year, we'd like to acknowledge the innovative efforts of our partners and friends in the industry. One company that's certainly making waves is XroadMedia.

In today's digital landscape, advertisers are constantly seeking ways to captivate their target audience.

The right ad frequency is crucial for viewer satisfaction. Find out how to keep your viewers happy and engaged.

Integrating a robust SaaS like RapidStream into your existing system can significantly enhance your ad delivery and monetization strategies. A Comprehensive Guide

In this post, we'll share how we worked around Stripe's rate limit by leveraging a message broker and VPC setup.

Broadcasting live events such as a Football Championship on Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels presents unique challenges, particularly due to the vastly increased number of concurrent users. Here's our solution.

In the dynamic landscape of containerized applications orchestrated by Kubernetes, ensuring graceful shutdown of services becomes imperative. This is particularly crucial for Node.js applications running within Docker containers, where abrupt termination can lead to data corruption or loss of in-flight operations.

In the intricate world of microservices, making sure communication flows smoothly and debugging is efficient is extremely important. Among the many tools available to us, correlation IDs stand out as essential tools, especially in event-driven architectures.

Step into the Astor Film Lounge in Hamburg's Hafencity, where the industry recently convened for a snapshot of the video advertising landscape. From the central role of FAST Channels to a surprising fire alarm interlude, the summit's highlights offer a glimpse into the dynamic shifts and challenges shaping the future of video advertising.

Scaling an application is a pivotal milestone in its lifecycle. It demands meticulous preparation, robust tooling, and a keen eye for optimization. In our journey of scaling, we encountered various challenges and uncovered invaluable insights. Here's a recount of our experience and the lessons we've learned.

The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam has always been a hotbed of innovation and progress in the broadcasting and media industry. That’s why we’re very excited to introduce RapidStreams’ ad mediation service during this year's IBC, together with our partner XroadMedia.

In the realm of modern software solutions, catering to diverse user needs while maintaining data integrity and security is a complex challenge. RapidStream, has leveraged the powerful authentication and authorization tool Clerk to craft an approach that balances multi-tenancy, security, scalability, and user experience. In this article, we delve into the architecture and strategies that power RapidStream.

On monday we published a post with a lot of open questions about event sourcing. Today we will give some answers to these questions.

Event sourcing is a powerful architectural pattern that enables developers to build scalable, resilient, and flexible systems. By capturing and persisting a series of events, it provides a historical record of state changes and allows for easy auditing, debugging, and system evolution. In this blog post, we will explore three common scenarios related to event sourcing: managing commands and events, ensuring referential integrity, and handling global settings

Our customer panel is the most important link between our customers and our services. Therefore, it needs to be fast and easy to use and the question arises: Which technologies are best suited for this?

Streamline your streaming platform's ad integration with AdMediation. Increase engagement and monetization opportunities through enriched ad targeting, dynamic ad duration adjustments, and effortless application of business rules. Partner easily with other platforms, maximize revenue with inventory sharing, and enjoy ad-free streaming for specific contexts. Optimize your ad integration and focus on your core business with AdMediation.

Streaming services have revolutionized the way we consume entertainment. They have given us access to a vast library of content that we can watch anytime, anywhere. With the rise of free streaming platforms, the focus of streaming companies has shifted from providing a wide range of content to engaging individual users.

Here are the most interesting links around the streaming world we stumbled upon in the last month. We’ve written a short summary for you, but a detailed look is recommended.

Hello world! In this post we give you a brief overview of what RapidStream is about and what we're up to with it.