streaming service on flex and rails
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Slides for Streaming Service on Flex and Rails at Ruby Tuesday.TRANSCRIPT
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Streaming Service upon Flex and Rails
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We work in Rhematech Inc.
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We provide live Streaming service over Internet on web
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100+ concurrent channels
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50000+ concurrent audience per channel
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Short demo(todo)
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System Structure
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Event Management
System
Channel Management
System
Media Server
Encoder/Audience UI Flex
Rails
Java/C++
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Main Challenges :Cost and Scalability
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We choose Flex and Railsbecause of
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COST
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We were used to be .NET users
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We suffered from high development and deployment cost
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It fails to respond dynamic requirements
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We did take Silverlight into consideration
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Not popular enough
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Poor designer support
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No alternatives for media server
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Flex and Rails save us
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Serve multimedia on web
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Rich user interaction
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Run over standard protocols
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Low development and deployment cost
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Good looking
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Service on mobile device(in the future)
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Lessons we learned
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#1. Be RESTful
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Consistent API design
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Consistent error handling
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Easier to extend and modify
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Always return errors in JSON/XML with 200 Ok
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flash.net.URLLoader does not handle HTTP error code well
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remove protect_from_forgeryfrom environment.rb
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#2. Use JSON instead of XML
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Less Traffic(quite important for large service)
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Easier to parse complex response
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Rails JSON Gotcha
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Rails does not unescapeunicode while decoding
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Fixed in Rails 2.3
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#3. Flash uses different session for file uploading on non-IE browsers
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Flash uses its http socket for file uploading on non-IE browsers
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Work Around -Session Migration
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#4. Handle Browser onbeforeunload event.
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Flash does not close NetConnection until you close all browser windows!
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#5. Create a controller to deliver debug .swf file in development mode.
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map.connect '/encoder.swf', :controller => “debug", :action => "encoder"if RAILS_ENV == ‘development'
route.rb
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def encodersend_file(path_to_debug_swf, options)
end
debug_controller.rb
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Makes debug and trace with rails much easier
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#6. Pick right video codec
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H263 vs. VP6 vs. H264
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H.263Pros: Flash Player build-inCons: Poor quality
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VP6Pros: Good video qualityCons: Expensive
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H264Pros: Good QualityCons: 2~6s more latency
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Questions?