A one-page checklist to work through before a streaming launch or live event: classify the origin (static vs just-in-time packaging, and size it for requests not just bytes), enable and place the origin shield (one consolidation point, nearest the origin), set TTLs so the shield holds, design origin failover (origin group, failover status codes, GET/HEAD/OPTIONS, tightened timeouts for live), plan multi-region/multi-CDN origin sharing, and the one sanity check that keeps a single server from end
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This origin shielding and resilience checklist helps you classify and size the origin, place one shield, set TTLs that hold and design failover before a launch or live event. Our seven-volume handbook covers the OTT stack; start with Volume 3 on CDNs and caching, then Volume 2 on just-in-time packaging with HLS and DASH and Volume 1 on encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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