Optimizing Streaming Services with Varnish: A Case Study of APA-IT's Success

APA-IT, Austria's premier media and broadcasting service provider, excels in offering IT services to the Austrian news agency and various other media companies. It has vast expertise in providing IT solutions for content production and distribution, including live and on-demand video streaming services.

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1/16/24 10:17 PM
by Ian Vaughan

Sizing a Varnish platform: Live streaming

There's a recurring discussion I get myself into, and it goes roughly like this:

- I want to stream live video, what kind of machine, and how many of them do I need?
- It depends.
- Depends on what?
- Math! Also, numbers!
- ...
- Joking, can you tell me <list of characteristics>
- <provides value>
- <performs black magic>. The answer to your question is <scarily accurate values>!

Obviously, it doesn't go "exactly" like this, but the goal of this post is going to be largely about boring math, so it sounds cooler if we say I'll be talking about black magic, right?

Let's open the grimoires and see how we can answer this sizing question!

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7/19/17 1:30 PM
by Guillaume Quintard

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