Live streaming segment delivery

DesignHard50 minAmazon and Disney style

Your task

Design the content-delivery path for live sports streaming to millions of concurrent viewers with <10s glass-to-glass latency. The manifest updates every few seconds as new segments are produced, viewers are on varying bandwidth, and a goal-moment causes a synchronized request spike for the same just-produced segment. Explain segment packaging, caching of live vs VOD content, and how you handle the synchronized stampede on each new segment.

It covers

  • Adaptive bitrate
  • Segment cache
  • Live