At the beginning of this year we created a group on our video engineering team to deal with the ingesting, encoding, publishing and syndication of The New York Times videos. The main goal of the team was to build a pipeline that is vendor agnostic, cloud-based, efficient and elastic. We ...
So, after more than 3 years of the publication of this post and almost 9 months working here, I'll give my two cents and elaborate a bit about my experience on the day-to-day work at the video team of The New York Times.
Environment
The technology of the video team ...
After almost 4 years immersed in a lot of exciting challenges, it's time to move on.
Sunset from my balcony by Fany
When I started working at Globo.com, I realized that every if that I wrote would run in hundreds of thousands of computers around the country. Until then ...
Motivated by Leandro, today I'm gonna write a bit about Clappr, an open source media player for the web. If you're Brazilian or know portuguese, there's also some useful information at Thiago's talk. Actually, I will inadvertently and explicitly steal some data from it.
History
During the last 4 years ...
During the last three years I've been working on the Live Video infrastructure at Globo.com and I've realized that one of the biggest problems we had here in Brazil is related to CDN throughput and telecom infrastructure in general. Looking at what has been happening with online streaming of ...
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
I was thinking about how important naming things is to me. Since the beginning of my undergraduate studies, I paid close attention to the names of every project I've done and every company or ...