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.

My first contribution to Vimeo’s engineering blog: Riding the dragon, an overview of Vimeo’s transcoding infrastructure.

It took about 7 months from the new draft to its publication. Mostly because it was often put on the back burner, and only really moved forward after I had to prepare my presentation on the same subject for the Paris Video Tech meetup.
Getting my post through an editor was an interesting experience, and made the result so much better.

VOD de mon intervention au meetup de décembre 2022 au Wagon.

Les slides (en anglais) : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LpWj-WPPgPGKoxiYZ6inXrCdQCe9RoxHmaR_jSl_t4M/edit?usp=sharing

Le meetup en entier est disponible ici : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJn7ZTRk060