In this talk, we will describe globo.com’s live video stream architecture, which was used to broadcast events such as the FIFA World Cup (with peak of 500K concurrent users), Brazilian election debates (27 simultaneous streams) and BBB (10 cameras streaming 24/7 for 3 months) .

NGINX is one of the main components of our platform, as we use it for content distribution, caching, authentication, and dynamic content. Besides our architecture, we will also discuss the Nginx and Operational System tuning that was required for a 19Gbps throughput in each node, the open source Cassandra driver for Nginx that we developed, and our recent efforts to migrate to nginx-rtmp.