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IMG_20120713_123916 : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Posted 1500 days ago. What’s this blog all about? Builds highly scalable platforms such as ShowCaster. For Channel 4, Vodafone, Sky, The Sun more. We thought we'd share our engineering challenges.
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Analysing Pinterest’s Infrastructure Architecture : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Analysing Pinterest’s Infrastructure Architecture. Less than a year ago, I wrote a post. On the different DB solutions available that are ‘cloud-ready’. For those who are still struggling with the decision of which database solution to use and want some real-life examples, I recommend reading this recent post. On Pinterest’s infrastructure architecture. Key notes from the article:. Choice of DB: MySQL Redis. Over MongoDB or Cassandra. Reason for DB: Sharding. Per month for just MySQL). Architecture is do...
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ShowCaster : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Archive for the ‘ShowCaster’ Category. We recently updated ShowCaster Studio. To give users the ability to customise how they embed the ShowCaster player. This has become a common feature amongst some online services, however everyone seems to have their own interpretation of how to present this information to the user. EmbedPreview iframe { transform-origin: top left; -moz-transform-origin: top left; -webkit-transform-origin: top left; -o-transform-origin: top left; -ms-transform-origin: top left; }.
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Embed Builder : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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We recently updated ShowCaster Studio. To give users the ability to customise how they embed the ShowCaster player. This has become a common feature amongst some online services, however everyone seems to have their own interpretation of how to present this information to the user. EmbedPreview iframe { transform-origin: top left; -moz-transform-origin: top left; -webkit-transform-origin: top left; -o-transform-origin: top left; -ms-transform-origin: top left; }. The main problem now came from detecting ...
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Working in a startup environment : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Working in a startup environment. 2012 has been a hell of a year for the team @ Orca Digital. We have achieved amazing feats for our products i.e. ShowCaster. And pushed hard to get the products to a level where they are now. But we’re not stopping there – in fact, 2013 will be even more of a rock’n’ roll year. We’re expanding the team further to cope with the increase in demand and new features we want to pump out into our products. What are we looking for? Happy (belated) New Year! Posted 1310 days ago.
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Team : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Archive for the ‘Team’ Category. Working in a startup environment. 2012 has been a hell of a year for the team @ Orca Digital. We have achieved amazing feats for our products i.e. ShowCaster. And pushed hard to get the products to a level where they are now. But we’re not stopping there – in fact, 2013 will be even more of a rock’n’ roll year. We’re expanding the team further to cope with the increase in demand and new features we want to pump out into our products. What are we looking for? Every year, t...
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Infrastructure : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Archive for the ‘Infrastructure’ Category. Analysing Pinterest’s Infrastructure Architecture. Less than a year ago, I wrote a post. On the different DB solutions available that are ‘cloud-ready’. For those who are still struggling with the decision of which database solution to use and want some real-life examples, I recommend reading this recent post. On Pinterest’s infrastructure architecture. Key notes from the article:. Choice of DB: MySQL Redis. Over MongoDB or Cassandra. Reason for DB: Sharding.
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ShowCaster Tools : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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ShowCaster’s success is down to its ability to scale up and down and meet the varying demands of live events – sometimes during short periods of time (typically around an hour) we will receive bursts of hundreds of thousands of users interacting with our platform concurrently (eg. when promoted on a mainstream TV channel). We’ve just completed a project rebuilding our auto-scaling infrastructure – consisting of 2 weekends creating ShowCaster Tools. Ruby as a replacement for our perl scripts. One of the f...
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Development : Orca Digital – Engineering Blog
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Archive for the ‘Development’ Category. Video on Android (update). Back in June 2012, when Android Jelly Bean was released, I wrote a post. On streaming video on the Android platform. Streaming video to Android at that time was a challenge, but 8 months later, have things progressed? Check out the link below to find out what the guys at Longtail found. Http:/ www.longtailvideo.com/blog/31646/the-pain-of-live-streaming-on-android. Posted 1268 days ago. In order to automate this process, we needed to integ...
