Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

Post by thinkMOAR » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 12:28 PM UTC

JakeTheAndroid wrote: post #144

mugsie wrote: post #109

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Yeah - that's a pretty standard way of doing things, and thats how DNS servers themselves will operate (mostly) when you make an update to a recordset. Its not your cache that is the issue. People have miss behaving caches, that do not always respect TTLs, some apps can cache the DNS response (I remember a Java issue where the initial value found was cached for the lifetime of the process!).

The TTL publicly is static and doesn't matter. The resolver you hit will just point to Cloudflare NS. Why we are faster, is because we point internally, and we don't have misconfigured TTLs or caching (I mean, things happen but it's not common). So once you update the global resolvers your visitors would hit to point to CF, their cache/TTL should never matter since we dictate where our internal DNS points the request…

Post by rmc » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 1:12 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #251

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That's the Daily Mail, a newspaper that supported Hitler during the 1930s, and today is not accepted as a source in Wikipedia due to "the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication" ¹. So you'll forgive me if I'm skeptical. Secondly there is nothing in that article about neo-Nazism, so I don't know why you brought it up? I'm talking about neo-Nazi sites, not general racism…

If reading the daily mail offends you, there was a long column in the FT last week end about this phenomenon [1] but you will find references in various newspapers [2] [3] (and dozens others if you google it). [1] https://www.ft.com/content/902581a0-99ff-11e7-b83c-9588e5148... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/education/edlife/internet... [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/student-protestors-and-t...

Post by dbbk » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 1:30 PM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #246

toomuchtodo wrote: post #57

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Cloudfront supports private content [1]. Its good to see video encoding/storage/delivery maturing; the more players in the space, the more options one has to choose from if a provider prefers to not host your content (whether that's because of a ToS violation, or because the company CEO just doesn't want to host your content). "Drop in" solutions give your provider a great deal of control over your fate, which is oka…

(serious question) why would Patreon build out their own video hosting system? Unless I misunderstand their business model, that's not really part of their core business. I feel like video hosting/streaming is part of their Patron's businesses, not theirs. They just manage the subscriptions. If I was an investor in Patreon, I would not want them spending my money building out a proprietary video hosting platform.

Post by rmc » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 2:46 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #255

rmc wrote: post #253

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> That's like saying there is an increased trend among conservatives in general towards being Nazis. Someone compared the election manifesto from the British National Party (who are basically neo-Nazi) for the 2005 UK election, and the 2017 manifesto from the Conservative party, the main centre-right party in the UK. And there were an awful lot of similarities which the Conservatives wouldn't have put in before. http…

There is an irony in you posting two answers within minutes, one likening a british political party to neo-nazis, and the other highlighting that you make a distinction between neo-nazis and other forms of racism.

Post by zimpenfish » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #246

toomuchtodo wrote: post #57

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Cloudfront supports private content [1]. Its good to see video encoding/storage/delivery maturing; the more players in the space, the more options one has to choose from if a provider prefers to not host your content (whether that's because of a ToS violation, or because the company CEO just doesn't want to host your content). "Drop in" solutions give your provider a great deal of control over your fate, which is oka…

(serious question) why would Patreon build out their own video hosting system? Unless I misunderstand their business model, that's not really part of their core business. I feel like video hosting/streaming is part of their Patron's businesses, not theirs. They just manage the subscriptions. If I was an investor in Patreon, I would not want them spending my money building out a proprietary video hosting platform.