Infrastructure & Delivery
Browse 352 curated video infrastructure and delivery resources — CDNs, origin servers, packaging, and cloud media tooling on Awesome Video.
Subcategories
- CDN Integration & Distribution
- Cloud & CDN
- Edge Computing & Caching Solutions
- Live Streaming Servers
- Multi-CDN Management
- Peer-to-Peer Streaming Solutions
- RTMPRTSPHTTP Protocol Servers
- Streaming Analytics & Monitoring
- Streaming Servers
- VOD Streaming Servers
Resources
- OTT Content Delivery– CDN AlternativesArticle exploring CDN alternatives for OTT content delivery. Covers infrastructure options for video streaming.
- Survive CDN Failures with Redundant StreamsTechnical deep-dive on client-side multi-CDN failover pattern using redundant streams with HLS.js.
- TV-WorkersCloudflare Worker IPTV proxy performing HLS playlist rewriting and CORS handling at the edge.
- This is How I Reduced My CloudFront Bills by 80%If you are using S3 and CloudFront to host your content and noticed that your bills are increasing, read this!
- Understanding Server-Side Dynamic Ad InsertionIn this post we’re explaining the principles behind Server-Side Dynamic Ad Insertion technology.
- VmapproxyProxy service from Eyevinn for handling VMAP and VAST ad insertion metadata in video streams.
- multifluxSelf-hostable multistreaming platform powered by Cloudflare Workers/Pages/Stream with edge fanout.
- Achieving 3-Second Latency: LL-HLS and LL-DASH Optimization with CDNEngineering deep-dive on a chunked-proxy CDN module that relays origin bytes mid-fetch, and why proxy_cache_lock plus proxy_buffering break…
- Akamai EdgeWorkers — Manifest and Playlist PersonalizationGuide to rewriting HLS/DASH manifests in edge JavaScript for rendition filtering, audio-language localization, live program replacement and…
- Amazon S3 (Fastly Help Guide)Documentation for integrating Amazon S3 object storage with Fastly's CDN platform to optimize content delivery and distribution.
- Apache Traffic Control — open source CDN control planeDocumentation for Apache Traffic Control (originally Comcast): Traffic Router, Monitor, Ops and Portal components, the CDN health protocol…
- Building a Self-Hosted Live Streaming CDN for HLS with OpenResty EdgeDeep technical walkthrough of building a two-tier HLS live CDN with OpenResty Edge: playlist vs segment cache rules, origin shielding, and…
- Fastly Streaming Configuration GuidelinesConcrete CDN cache configuration rules for streaming: live manifest TTL under half the segment duration, shield vs edge segment TTLs, and o…
- Fastly — Streaming configuration guidelinesFastly's operational guidance for video delivery: manifest vs segment TTLs, origin shielding, request collapsing and token auth for streami…
- aem-cdn-cache-invalidatorAuto-invalidates CDN cache on content update, pluggable beyond Akamai, background processing.
- akamai-tag-purgeGCP Cloud Function purging Akamai cache by cache-tags, token-bucket rate-limit handling built in.
- akamai/cli-purgeOfficial Akamai CLI for FastPurge (CCUv3), sub-5s cache invalidation.
- purge-cdnSmall CLI purging cache objects across multiple CDNs (Edgecast, Akamai) via unified env-var auth.
- Cloudflare Stream Live: Engineering Deep-DiveEngineering post on distributed live ingest architecture vs legacy single-region ingest, covering LL-HLS latency, WHIP/WHEP, and SRT suppor…
- DIY-Streaming-CDNReference architecture and OSS stack (OBS + nginx + load balancer) for building a self-hosted livestream CDN.
- EBU Media eXchange Layer (MXL) — Project PageEBU's official MXL landing page describing the Dynamic Media Facility approach of specifying by implementation for cloud-native live produc…
- Fastly — Video Cache Prefetch with Compute@EdgeTechnical writeup on an edge-compute (WASM) pattern that prefetches upcoming video segments at the edge to cut origin round-trips.
- How Cloudflare Streams Video (Engineering)Engineering deep-dive on Cloudflare Stream's architecture: tus resumable upload protocol, encoding pipeline, dynamic underutilized-datacent…
- Open Streaming PlatformSelf-hosted live streaming platform (Twitch/Ustream alternative) with RTMP ingest, Flask + nginx-rtmp-module stack.