slroger

Hi HN, I'm building a short form video app(avg clip length 40 seconds, expecting 10-50,000 plays per day, growing, with 20% of traffic outside the US,80% in the US, mostly mobile). I'm deciding between:

1.) CloudflareStream + Backblaze(B2): Pros: Simple product, minutes viewed pricing(possibly cheaper than GCP for video streaming), built in transcoding. Concern: not sure if their ABR quality will match the quality of say GCP's which was really good in prior use.

2. GCP(GCS+TranscoderAPI+MediaCDN) Pros: I used this set up previously and it was robust, storage was cheap, network costs were low and the streaming quality was excellent. And the console was fairly easy to navigate(especially compared to AWS) I left GCP because of non Video Streaming related issues(Video Intelligence API was exceptionally expensive) but considering going back just for Video storage and streaming Cons: There were some issues configuring the transcoder API and also concerned there may be gotcha prices as I get more users

So if you've used Cloudflare Stream or GCP's video streamin services I'd love your take on: Real world playback quality for short videos especially 1080p/720p behaviour and bitrate ladders on CloudStream.

Any gotchas in pricing when it comes to either CloudStream or GCP Video Streaming services

Reliability/Operational issues you've run into.

I'm currently leaning on Cloudflare Streaming as it seems cheaper/better deal but concerned about reliability and quality of video streams. So maybe going back to GCP for video streaming wouldnt be so bad.

So looking forward to your thoughts, thank you

Why does Perplexity use FastAPI over say Django? Clearly they are doing well and could have done well with either but I'm curious why they went with FastAPI over a more tried and tested framework like Django. The only proof I've found they use FastAPI on the backend are the job postings.(https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/perplexityai/jobs/4601047007)

Hi everyone, I am a backend developer using Spring Boot and Java. I also know some Angular. I had an app idea and wanted to build out the backend in either Kotlin+SpringBoot or Django+Python. I already know Python from prior experience but was wondering which one of the two combinations would be faster for prototyping. I know Django works well since it was used for Instagram. It would be easier on me if Spring Boot+Kotlin is a comparatively good choice since I already use Java+Spring Boot. I dont plan on using Java for the app since it can be a bit verbose at times and Django already has authentication included unlike Spring Boot with Spring Security. The app idea is a social networking application so it would need users, likes, comments, messaging and an activity stream/news feed. what are your thoughts?

I saw this impressive data from Stack Exchange(https://stackexchange.com/performance) about their Self Hosting infrastructure. I know they're an outlier for their size of company, but I wonder if there are similarly sized companies or even smaller tech companies that do not rely on the cloud and share as much data about their hardware infrastructure and self hosting data. Particularly those using Java on the backend. Could be using Spring Boot or Quarkus or whatever framework. I primarily use Spring Boot at work and I like it.