Demuxed '23: The NeverEnding Story of replacing your transcoding pipeline
Back in October, I was lucky enough to have been invited as a speaker at Demuxed, the conference for video devs.
The NeverEnding Story of replacing your transcoding pipeline
Back in 2019, we set upon replacing our aging transcoding pipeline. We’re in 2023 and the old system still hasn’t been deprecated. What is taking us so long?
In this talk, we’ll go over why we decided to build a new transcoding platform (goals, why not just improve the existing one, etc.), the challenges we faced (video, infrastructure or otherwise), how it (carefully) got rolled out to our users, and some lessons learned along the way.
It’s a shorter (and less technical) version of the talk I gave at the Paris Video Tech meetup back in December 2022 (based on my post in the Vimeo Engineering blog).
Slides are here.
It was an incredible experience to talk in front of such a large (for me) crowd, and even though I was extremely stressed out (and jetlagged), I enjoyed it a lot.