A one-page worksheet to pressure-test a live premiere before the night: forecast PEAK concurrency (not average, not registrations), size both herds (control-plane requests/sec and data-plane terabits/sec), confirm request collapsing and an origin shield protect the origin, verify multi-CDN failover with content steering, plan graceful degradation (waiting room, bitrate shed, static slate), set retry backoff with jitter, and gate the launch on a full-scale rehearsal load-tested at peak — with the
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This live event readiness worksheet sizes premiere-night peaks, checks origin shielding and multi-CDN failover with content steering, and gates launch on a full-scale rehearsal. We wrote seven volumes covering the whole video stack; start with Volume 3 for CDNs and ABR, then Volume 2 for live transport, with Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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