Netflix Live Origin

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Learn about Netflix’s world class engineering efforts, company culture, product developments and more.

了解 Netflix 的世界一流工程努力、公司文化、产品开发等。

Xiaomei Liu, Joseph Lynch, Chris Newton

Introduction

引言

Behind the Streams: Building a Reliable Cloud Live Streaming Pipeline for Netflix introduced the architecture of the streaming pipeline. This blog post looks at the custom Origin Server we built for Live — the Netflix Live Origin. It sits at the demarcation point between the cloud live streaming pipelines on its upstream side and the distribution system, Open Connect, Netflix’s in-house Content Delivery Network (CDN), on its downstream side, and acts as a broker managing what content makes it out to Open Connect and ultimately to the client devices.

Behind the Streams: Building a Reliable Cloud Live Streaming Pipeline for Netflix 介绍了 streaming pipeline 的架构。本博客文章讨论了我们为 Live 构建的自定义 Origin Server — Netflix Live Origin。它位于云 live streaming pipeline（上游侧）和分发系统、Open Connect（Netflix 内部内容交付网络 (CDN)，下游侧）之间的分界点，充当经纪人，管理哪些内容输出到 Open Connect 并最终到达客户端设备。

Live Streaming Distribution and Origin Architecture

Netflix Live Origin is a multi-tenant microservice operating on EC2 instances within the AWS cloud. We lean on standard HTTP protocol features to communicate with the Live Origin. The Packager pushes segments to it using PUT requests, which place a file into sto...