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Video Streaming Platform

The capstone project — combines storage at scale, asynchronous processing pipelines, and global content delivery into one system. Build a YouTube-style platform where users upload video, the system transcodes it into multiple qualities, and viewers stream it smoothly worldwide with minimal buffering.

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Intro

What you're building

A YouTube-style platform: users upload video, the system transcodes it into multiple qualities, and viewers stream it smoothly worldwide with minimal buffering — tying together nearly every pattern from the earlier projects into one pipeline.

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Step 1 — Design the upload path

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Step 2 — Build the transcoding pipeline as a job

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Step 3 — Serve adaptive bitrate streaming

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Step 4 — Put a CDN in front of everything

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Step 5 — Track watch analytics without slowing playback

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Secret Mission

Secret Mission: throttle your own bandwidth

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Wrap Up

What you learned

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