Scalable Video Streaming: Best Practices for Heavy Traffic Loads

Discover 7 proven best practices to efficiently handle high traffic and massive data in video streaming applications, ensuring smooth playback, scalability, and top performance.

Scalable Video Streaming: Best Practices for Heavy Traffic Loads
2 years ago
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 Hotstar and JioCinema.

Hotstar has officially merged with JioCinema, and the combined platform is now called 'JioHotstar'.

Here are some best practices to help you handle large amounts of traffic and data in video streaming applications.

  1. Scalability

  1. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

. Read more about What is a CDN? How does CDN work?

  1. Video Encoding and Transcoding

  1. Caching

  1. Database Optimization

  1. Content Security

Content security is critical for video streaming applications that deal with sensitive content like movies and TV shows. You should use encryption techniques like AES-256 to protect your content from unauthorized access. You should also use digital rights management (DRM) solutions to ensure only authorized users can access your content.

  1. Monitoring and Analytics

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Video Streaming Streaming Optimization Data Management Traffic Handling Streaming Performance CDN Scalability Cloud Streaming Video Delivery Live Streaming
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Manjeet Kumar Nai

Full Stack Developer & Tech Writer

Expert Full Stack Developer specializing in Laravel, React, Node.js, and AWS technologies.

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