1 year ago

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Three years before millions of viewers saw, arguably, one of the most thrilling World Cup Finals ever broadcast, TF1, the leading private TV channel in France, started a project to redefine the foundations of its broadcasting platform, including adopting a new cloud-based architecture. According to https://www.linkedin.com/in/thierry-bonhomme-251417100/, CTO of eTF1 (the group within TF1 in charge of digital platforms) whom I recently interviewed for the https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/france/podcasts/, digital broadcasting now accounts for 20–25 percent of TF1’s total audience.

As part of this preparation, AWS helped TF1 prepare their system to meet their scalability, performance, and security requirements.

When the viewer selects a live stream, other API calls are made to receive the video stream URL.

The TF1 team developped a load-testing engine to simulate users connecting to the platform, authenticating, selecting a program, and starting a video stream.