Architecture and streaming
Notes and pointers on streaming systems, cloud services and the decisions behind them.
Solutions Architect
Designing large‑scale streaming platforms.
I’m a Solutions Architect working on large-scale streaming platforms, across cloud and systems integration. Between 2010 and 2012 I designed a dedicated video network (the DVN), the in-house delivery platform behind Sky Go and NOW TV. I then led the solution architecture for its portable, software-defined successor, which I co-presented running in Google Cloud in 2019. I designed it so a later cloud decision would not mean starting again.
I design how live TV reaches people’s screens, then explain it in plain English so everyone around the table can follow the decisions.
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My story in four eras: About me
Practice
- Streaming platformsLarge-scale live streaming and media platforms, from an in-house delivery platform through software-defined streaming in the cloud.
- Writing and speakingPublic writing on live-video workflows, plus conference talks including Streaming Forum 2018 and Google Cloud Next ’19.
Writing themes
Building with AI
How I use AI assistants to research, check and polish my own work, and what I'm learning along the way.
Elsewhere
Outside work
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