Tabii.com is a prominent online streaming service provider platform developed by kloia for TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation). Tabii.com wanted to enhance its video-on-demand infrastructure to meet the growing demand for video content. The project sought to develop a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solution that could efficiently handle video ingestion, encoding, storage, and content delivery to end users.
This case study explores the implementation of a scalable and robust video-on-demand (VOD) infrastructure platform, showcasing the challenges faced, the architectural decisions made, and the utilization of various AWS services to achieve an efficient and reliable VOD platform. The case study aims to provide insights into the planning, design, and implementation phases, emphasizing the key considerations and best practices when building a VOD infrastructure on AWS.
Challenges Faced during Tabii.com's platform development process
Scaling and Performance
One of the significant challenges was to ensure that the VOD platform could handle a massive volume of video content and concurrent user requests without compromising performance. Tabii.com required a solution that could dynamically scale based on demand to accommodate peak traffic without service degradation. This involved careful resource planning and utilization of scalable AWS services and AWS Karpenter.
Availability and Reliability
Another challenge was to ensure high availability and reliability for uninterrupted video streaming. Tabii.com needed a solution that could handle active-active and active-passive architectures to minimize downtime and guarantee a reliable user experience across different devices and locations. This necessitated the implementation of fault-tolerant architectures, redundancy mechanisms, and appropriate AWS services.
Latency Sensitivity
Tabii.com aimed to deliver video content to a global audience with low latency and high-quality streaming. The challenge was to implement a content delivery network (CDN) that would optimize content delivery based on the user's location while maintaining consistent performance. This required the integration of AWS CloudFront with AWS Global Accelerator and other CDN technologies.
Security and Access Control
Protecting copyrighted content and ensuring secure access was paramount for Tabii.com. Robust security measures were necessary to prevent unauthorized access, content piracy, and data breaches throughout the VOD infrastructure. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, and other security features played a vital role in addressing these challenges.
Cost Optimization
Achieving cost efficiency while scaling the VOD platform was a significant challenge. Tabii.com sought a solution that could optimize costs by leveraging appropriate AWS services, autoscaling capabilities, and efficient resource utilization. This involved careful monitoring, cost analysis, and the implementation of cost optimization techniques.
