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Control plane on AWS, video delivered from its own CDN. 10 components, 2 request walk-throughs.
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Devices Open Connect CDN Edge gateway (Zuul) Microservices EVCache Cassandra Kafka event pipeline Encoding pipeline Video storage Monitoring (Atlas)
A simplified model based on public talks and engineering write-ups. Real systems are larger and change over time.