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Everything is fine right up until the moment it isn’t. Your platform has run smoothly for months, handling your normal audience without a complaint. Then you stream the big one — the final, the premiere, the product launch — and at the exact moment the most people are watching, it falls over, streaming platform crashes during live events. Streams won’t load, logins fail, the...

If you already run HTTP/2, you have probably wondered about HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3 and whether HTTP/3 is worth the switch. HTTP/2 was a genuine leap over HTTP/1.1, and it still powers a huge share of the web perfectly well. HTTP/3 is newer, faster in the situations that matter most, and increasingly the default on modern delivery networks, but the gap between the ...

For most of the streaming era, video has been delivered over a transport protocol that was never designed for it. HLS and DASH ride on top of HTTP, and HTTP has ridden on top of TCP since the beginning — a reliable, well-understood protocol built decades ago for a very different internet. HTTP/3 for video streaming changes that foundation by moving HTTP onto...

A live sports stream piracy attack does not always begin with a cracked encryption key. Increasingly, it begins with your own infrastructure delivering the game to people who never paid for it. The pirate does not need to break your DRM if they can simply borrow a legitimate viewer’s access and let your content delivery network do the rest, serving a stolen ...

CDN Bandwidth rarely announces itself as a problem. It creeps. A few thousand more concurrent viewers, a bump from 1080p to 4K, a replay window that used to close in an hour and now stays open for three days. None of it feels dramatic in the moment. Then the invoice lands, and delivery has quietly become one of the largest lines in your infrastructure budget.

For a...