A one-page worksheet to run the concurrency arithmetic for your own audience (peak concurrency, throughput, hourly egress), tick the cost-curve levers (cache offload, origin shielding, multi-CDN content steering), size the data and control planes separately, and check readiness before a live spike.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This OTT scaling and capacity worksheet runs peak concurrency, throughput and hourly egress for your audience and covers cache offload, shielding and content steering. We wrote seven volumes on the OTT stack; start with Volume 3 on CDNs, caching and delivery economics, then Volume 2 on transport and packaging and Volume 1 on encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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