Respecting What Came Before, Premature Optimization, the Pitfalls of Sensationalism and Technology Enthusiasm
My response to the reaction generated by the Prime Video article published last week
“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” ― Amit Ray
Every now and then, the internet goes crazy over something someone said, did, or thought. Last week, it was an article from the Video Quality Analysis (VQA) team at Prime Video about the architecture evolution of their specialized live stream monitoring service. One of the hundreds of services that powers Prime Video.
The article talks about the architectural evolution of a tool developed by VQA for audio/video quality inspection. That tool, never intended nor designed to run at high scale, was now required to meticulously track all the live streams going to customers and automatically detect and address perceptual quality issues such as block corruption or audio/video synchronization problems.
