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Advanced Video Delivery & Low Latency

Live sport, multi-CDN and sub-five-second latency at scale.

Taught live by Vikram Rao, Principal Engineer, video delivery

About this cohort course

For engineers running delivery in production: low-latency HLS and DASH, multi-CDN switching, origin architecture, live sport failover, and QoE-driven operations during peak concurrency.

Who this course is for

  • Video and platform engineers
  • SREs supporting live streaming
  • Technical leads planning big live events

Course outline

5 modules, taught live one lecture at a time.

  1. 1

    Module 1 · Low latency streaming

    LL-HLS, LL-DASH, chunked transfer and trade-offs.

  2. 2

    Module 2 · Origin and shield

    Origin architecture, caching and shielding.

  3. 3

    Module 3 · Multi-CDN

    Switching strategies, RUM data and cost.

  4. 4

    Module 4 · Live event operations

    Failover, redundancy and war rooms.

  5. 5

    Module 5 · QoE at scale

    Instrumentation, alerting and post-mortems.

What you should know before joining

  • Working knowledge of HTTP streaming
  • Experience operating production systems

What you'll be able to do after this cohort

  • Design a low-latency live pipeline
  • Operate multi-CDN switching
  • Plan capacity for concurrency peaks
  • Run QoE-driven incident response

Meet your faculty

V

Vikram Rao

Principal Engineer, video delivery

Vikram has operated delivery for concurrency peaks in the tens of millions.

  • Ran delivery at 25M+ concurrency
  • Built multi-CDN switching logic
  • Cut live latency below 5 seconds

Cohorts

Cohort 01 · Aug 2026

Starts 30 Jul 2026 · ends 4 Sept 2026

Live lecture every weekday, 8:30–9:30 PM IST

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