Series

Audiobook streaming platform on AWS stack and Ruby on Rails

In this series I discuss the issues that I encountered while working on audiobook streaming platform.

Articles in this series

Streaming (HLS) vs progressive download

Apr 19, 20212 min read

In the context of audiobook streaming platform

Convert mp3 files to a streaming-ready format

Apr 20, 20213 min read

with Ruby SDK for AWS MediaConvert

How do I use ActiveJob to track the progress of long-running remote tasks?

Apr 21, 20212 min read

Yesterday I wrote a post about initializing AWS Elemental MediaConvert job. It's a common case that you initiate a task and have to wait some unspecified time for the result. All what you have is an external system job id. In such cases, I use a ve...

Securing Amazon Cloudfront stream with signed cookies

Apr 22, 20212 min read

In the context of audiobook streaming platform

Accessing Cloudfront stream with VideoJS and server-side signed cookies

Apr 23, 20212 min read

Today's post is a continuation of what I wrote yesterday about securing Cloudfront stream with signed cookie. I encourage you to open this post especially to look at the UML diagram. There are some things you need to keep in mind to access a stream ...