Media and high-traffic

Our work, filtered to one sector.

All sectorsEnterprise SaaSE-commerce and DTCNon-profit and educationFintech and regulatedMedia and high-traffic

Public read traffic is spiky and the read path recomputes expensive aggregates or hits a slow upstream on every request; meanwhile large file downloads on poor mobile networks get severed by default request timeouts and full-response buffering, and the public surface must never expose internal fields.

How we would approach it

Cache computed results at TTLs tuned per surface, using a cheap short-TTL listing/version check as the freshness signal so you're never blind to new content for more than a few seconds, and run stateless containers on Cloud Run behind a global HTTPS load balancer with CDN-fronted object storage for assets. Enforce the public boundary with a dedicated DTO whose sensitive fields don't exist, and for large downloads raise the request timeout and remove any middleware that buffers the whole response, since serverless response-size limits will otherwise sever the stream.

  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • Cloud Run
  • Google Cloud

15 published in this sector · 1 written up in full

2024 onward1 project

  1. 01Oct 2026An AI match-intelligence control room for live sports broadcast, on AzureMicrosoft Foundry · Azure OpenAI · Microsoft Agent Framework · Azure Container Apps · BicepRead the write-up

2016 to 20202 projects

  1. 27Jan 2017 to Feb 2019Container adoption and production orchestrationDocker · Kubernetes · Packer
  2. 28May 2016 to Aug 2018An on-premises private cloud with self-service core servicesOpenStack · Ansible · Terraform

2012 to 20167 projects

  1. 29Mar 2015 to Apr 2016An HPC compute cluster for an internal development cloudKVM · xCAT · OpenHPC · Slurm
  2. 30Jan 2015 to Dec 2016CDN configuration captured and audited under version controlAkamai · Python · Subversion
  3. 31Sep 2014 to Jun 2017Operational wrappers over load-balancer, firewall and storage APIsPerl · Python · NetApp
  4. 32Jun 2014 to Dec 2016Version-controlled DNS zone management for public and internal resolutionBIND · Perl · Subversion
  5. 33Jun 2014 to Jul 2015LDAPS directory refactored for multi-master replication across datacentersOpenLDAP · Perl · Linux
  6. 34Mar 2012 to Mar 2014Continuous integration across development, staging and productionJenkins · PHPUnit · Selenium
  7. 35Jan 2012 to Mar 2014Provisioning automation for physical and virtual hostsPuppet · PXE · Kickstart · Bash

Before 20125 projects

  1. 36Aug 2011 to Mar 2014A configuration-management baseline across core servicesPuppet · PostgreSQL · Apache · MySQL · Memcached
  2. 37Jun 2011 to Sep 2013Heterogeneous virtualization consolidated onto one hypervisorKVM · CentOS · libvirt
  3. 38Mar 2010 to Dec 2010Migration of newly acquired sites into the hosting estateLinux · Apache · MySQL
  4. 39Jan 2010 to Dec 2010Configuration modules and versioned deployment for core web servicesPuppet · Apache · MySQL · PostgreSQL
  5. 40Nov 2009 to Dec 2010Filer and load-balancer operations for a high-traffic estateNetApp · Big-IP · Linux