Video Encoding Pipeline: Building a Cheap Transcoding Service in 2026
Step-by-step architectural guide to building an ultra-low-cost video transcoding service with FFmpeg, S3, SQS, and chunked parallel AV1/HLS encoding.
Step-by-step architectural guide to building an ultra-low-cost video transcoding service with FFmpeg, S3, SQS, and chunked parallel AV1/HLS encoding.
Zero-Trust Architecture: What It Would Have Prevented in 2026's Biggest Breaches
Applying zero-trust principles retroactively to 2026's major breaches — which attacks would have been stopped, which would have been limited, and which ZTA still can't prevent.
Real-Time Multiplayer Game Backend: Authoritative Server Pattern in 2026
A masterclass on building cheat-proof, low-latency multiplayer game servers. We explore client-side prediction, server reconciliation, lag compensation with historical hit-boxes, entity interpolation, and high-frequency delta compression over UDP/WebSockets in Go and TypeScript.