The Brazilian challenges for media streaming

Here at Globo, we have as our mission to build resilient systems to provide an optimal experience for our domestic and international customers, allowing them to watch their favorite international or local tv show, a soap opera, or any of our live streaming channels on globoplay.

The architecture supporting globoplay’s media platform heavily relies on open-source software such as GNU/Linux, nginx, tsuru, kubernetes, clappr, nginx, on-the-fly packaging and much more. Another exciting aspect about Globo is that we built and manage our own CDN. Such a task pushes us to broaden our knowledge and understanding around Brazil’s networking infrastructure.

Nowadays, people are expecting to stream on any device they own. This means that we need to support most of these devices. There are hundreds of smartphones, dozens of smart TVs, many tablets, browsers, casters, etc. Providing a steady and successful playback experience in this scenario inevitably adds a lot of complexity to the architecture.

We’re live-streaming the famous program Big Brother through the Internet and broadcasting it into the air as well. In one of the days, we reached 2 million simultaneous users watching the BBB live stream. To serve these many users, we must be present in the majority of stream-capable platforms.

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