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Spark's Modules, Seen Through Spark Connect

Spark is moving its centre of gravity out of the JVM. Spark Connect, introduced in 3.4, lets a client drive Spark over gRPC without running a JVM of…

Your OBS Browser Source can't hear the mic. Read OBS's own audio meter instead

I was building a PNGTuber overlay: a character in an OBS Browser Source whose mouth opens when the streamer talks. In Chrome it worked on the first…

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”

A combined service could lead to higher prices.

‘The Pitt,’ ‘Hacks’ and ‘Beef’ Among Astra TV Awards Winners

2026 아스트라 TV 어워즈(Astra TV Awards)에서 '더 피트(The Pitt)'가 드라마 부문 6관왕을 차지했습니다. '핵스(Hacks)', '비프(Beef)' 등도 수상의 영예를 안았죠. 의료 드라마가 강세를 보인 올해, 개발자 관점에서 눈에 띄는…

The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers

Adding DRM to Native Video Apps and AWS Live Streaming: What to Validate

A protected video player has to work across several playback environments. Android, iOS, Apple TV and Samsung Smart TV do not share one player stack…

Understanding IPTV Streaming Protocols in 2026: HLS vs MPEG-TS & Hardware Acceleration

Understanding IPTV Streaming Protocols in 2026: HLS vs MPEG-TS & Hardware Acceleration When analyzing video streaming architecture, live Interne…

The Architecture of Live Video Streaming: How HLS, DASH, and CDNs Actually Work

Live video streaming has become the backbone of modern entertainment infrastructure. Whether a user is watching a football match, joining a video co…

Roku’s new Labs hub brings experimental apps to the big screen

Roku’s latest OS update introduces Roku Labs, a new hub for experimental apps, alongside personalized home screens in more markets, streaming subscr…

Bridging Webhooks to Your Event Mesh: A Secure Edge Pattern for Kafka, Redpanda, and NATS

API event standardization API integration middleware API webhook payload mapping AsyncAPI specification AsyncAPI webhook design asyncAPI webhooks Cl…

The phone line was playing a web page into the call

nixamp streams have a phone number. Call +1 408-357-2326, key a six digit code, and if that code belongs to a live stream you hear the stream. That…

How we made a MIDI controller run our browser radio studio

A live radio screen is fine until the host has to do three things at once. The mouse becomes the wrong tool the moment you need to open a mic, pull…

Live streaming technologies in crypto analytics

What Live Streaming Infrastructure Actually Means for Crypto Analytics Crypto data is not like most data. Prices move in milliseconds, on-chain even…

WebSocket silent data gap in market feed

When Your WebSocket Lies to You by Saying Nothing The worst kind of bug is the one your system doesn't report. A connection is open. No errors. No r…

Под капотом Kafka: путь сообщения от send() до commit offset. Часть 1

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Максим Шуматбаев, я инженер технической поддержки в Arenadata. Эта статья — попытка собрать в одном месте внутренние механи…

Hidden complexity of building WebSocket servers from scratch

WebSockets Sound Simple Until You Have to Maintain One There's a moment every engineer hits when building a real-time feature: you look at the WebSo…

Building a Streaming Pipeline: From a System Design Perspective

Say you're on vacation and you've just recorded a fairly large video of yourself skydiving for the first time, naturally, you'd want to send it to a…

Streaming tool calls without losing your mind

Originally published on Loop & Retry — field notes on building LLM agents that survive production. Streaming exists so the user isn't staring at…

Flutter Streaming UI: How the Typewriter Experience of AI Replies Is Built

The typewriter effect looks simple: characters appear one by one. But behind "skip animation", "no truncation", and "no performance regression" lies…

Why Data Engineering Is the Oldest Profession in Infrastructure

Not that one. The other one: keeping water flowing to people who need it. The comparison between data engineers and plumbers gets made a lot, usuall…

Edge vs Cloud Inference for Live Sports Highlights: Where Should the Model Run?

When you build a system that detects key moments in a live sports feed, one architectural decision shapes everything downstream: where does the infe…

The Compression Layer Nobody Thinks About Until It's Too Late

WebSocket optimization tends to follow a predictable pattern. You build the connection layer, get events flowing, ship the feature, and move on. Com…

Syncing Replayed Chat to a VOD Timeline: Why I Threw Away Binary Search

I build NoSub , a browser-based VOD player for Twitch and Kick. It started as something narrow — paste a replay link, watch it in a cleaner player —…

Kafka Topics, Partitions, and Offsets Explained: The Concepts Every Beginner Confuses

When I first started learning Apache Kafka, I quickly realized that three terms appeared everywhere: topics, partitions, and offsets. At first glanc…

Exactly-Once Semantics in Kafka: Promise vs. Reality

"We're using Kafka with exactly-once semantics, so we don't have to worry about duplicates." I've heard this in architecture reviews, design docs, a…

Capturing, Streaming, Storing, and Visualizing Crypto Market Data in Real Time with PostgreSQL, Debezium, Kafka, JDBC & Grafana

In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency, market data changes every second — prices fluctuate, trades execute, and volumes shift continuously. Cap…

React Server Components: Under the Hood of Streaming and Client Boundaries

You’ve probably hit that moment where your React app feels sluggish, or where splitting code between client and server logic gets messy fast. React…

Build a Real-Time Dashboard with Python, FastAPI, and WebSockets

Your Dashboard Is Lying to You (And Polling Is Why) Every five seconds, your frontend fires a request. The server wakes up, queries the database, se…

The 1x1 Pixel That Broke My Streaming Extension

Saturday morning, 9 AM. I was at the kitchen island, making a pour-over coffee and testing StreamEnhancer on my MacBook while chopping onions for a…

18+ инновации + UI

В статье продолжаю развивать идеи изменения плеера стриминговых сервисов с более глубокой проработкой интерфейсов и алгоритмов. Цель — изменение пар…