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Design a Live Video Streaming platform (like Twitch) — low-latency ingest and fan-out to millions.
The ingest-transcode-and-low-latency-delivery problem: how a live stream is ingested from a broadcaster, transcoded into multiple quality levels in near-real-time (unlike YouTube's offline transcode pipeline), and delivered to potentially millions of concurrent viewers with only a few seconds of latency.
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