How DAZN streams live sports to MILLIONS of concurrent viewers

Ep #98 of the Real-World Serverless podcast
In this episode, I spoke with Bob Hannent, the principal architect of DAZN's video playback and delivery system. This system is responsible for streaming live sporting events to millions of concurrent viewers.
We discussed the many challenges that come with streaming live videos at scale. How to ensure uptime even when your CDN partners suffer an outage. And how best to ensure the best playback experience for your customers across dozens of different platforms.
There's a lot to learn from this conversation. Honestly, I'm amazed by how much thought and engineering have gone into delivering those bytes from the stadiums to the customers.
And when you can push both AWS and CDN providers to their limits, every engineering decision has to be thought through carefully.
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[@joaopedroafonsocerqueira4586]

Well said @BobHannet. Was an amazing project you guys put up to stream DAZN to millions over the last 7-8years :) . And was also great to be part of the side , Data family of it :)

[@khawajashams1639]

This was an incredible podcast. Thank you Yan for driving such an awesome conversation! and Bob for the deep dive behind the scenes at DAZN.

[@theburningmonk]

Thanks Khawaja! It was one of my fav episodes as well

[@BobHannent]

It was good to chat with you Yan!

[@theburningmonk]

Was great to have you on the show, loved the insights into the streaming side of things!

[@illyam689]

Thanks for this amazing podcast!

[@theburningmonk]

Glad you liked it!

[@JuliaT522]

Thank you it’s nice to have advanced topics like this discussed

[@theburningmonk]

Glad you liked it. It's one of my fav episodes so far as well. There's a lot of really interesting technical challenges that goes into video streaming at scale, it's under-appreciated

[@andreadiotallevi5780]

Fascinating interview!

[@theburningmonk]

thanks, glad you liked it!

[@Root-uno6nw]

Maybe they'll secure their CDN one day.

[@theburningmonk]

Tell me more?