Floatplane Stack Introduction

[mvtech]

I always appreciate the LMG "behind the scenes" videos demonstrating their workflow.

 

I think it would be interesting for Luke to do a similar video on Floatplane. For example, describing their stack, DevOps, key challenges and how they overcame them, etc.

 

@Slick

 

[kickall]

There was an WAN show where @Slickwas hiring for some frontend and backend dev positions (iirc) that required specific frameworks. Shame I can't remember which ones, but I am totally down for a bts of Floatplane media and even just devops by the LMG team in general. 

[shadow_ray]

By looking at the page it's probably Angular + firebase + whatewer they use to host, transcode and stream content (my guess is google cloud services).

[TheStarkster90]

On 7/5/2022 at 3:05 AM, shadow_ray said:

By looking at the page it's probably Angular + firebase + whatewer they use to host, transcode and stream content (my guess is google cloud services).

If I remember right, on the WAN Show they once said that they don't use cloud hosting because the costs for cloud hosting and transcoding aren't easy to calculate unlike buying a crapton 3080s and using a custom solution to NVENC uploaded content.

(That last part after the "unlike buying..." is me pulling a hypothesis out of my butt.)

[rikitikitavi]

I believe Luke (at random WanShow) said they used MEAN

Edited July 27, 2022 by rikitikitavi

[El Capitan Sponge]

On 7/14/2022 at 11:51 AM, TheStarkster90 said:

If I remember right, on the WAN Show they once said that they don't use cloud hosting because the costs for cloud hosting and transcoding aren't easy to calculate unlike buying a crapton 3080s and using a custom solution to NVENC uploaded content.

(That last part after the "unlike buying..." is me pulling a hypothesis out of my butt.)

I can back up the fact that having dedicated servers rather then AWS, Azure and the like for video transcoding is more beneficial. In my line of work we transcode a lot of videos as well, and this is the way to go for us as well. It is better to have a consistent billable over a billable that changes constantly, especially when budgeting and forecasting ops costs and so on.

[Karbust]

They talk a lot about OVH, and deploying Docker and Kubernetes, that's probably what they are using for hosting. I've heard it mostly when OVH datacenter in Europe burned. I believe I heard it on a WAN Show.

 

OVH also has plans with NVIDIA GPUs, maybe they are using that for transcoding. Either that or they transcode their content on their servers and then upload. Maybe they require content creators to upload the various transcoded versions. No idea about this part.

[Ababba]

On a side not, Floatplane recently updated and committed a cardinal sin of web development by hijacking the back button with a redirect.

[wasab]

i know at least they are using angular

 

 

[shadow_ray]

On 8/5/2022 at 4:21 PM, wasab said:

i know at least they are using angular

 

 

What's the name of the extension? Is it wappalyzer?

[wasab]

13 minutes ago, shadow_ray said:

What's the name of the extension? Is it wappalyzer?

yes

[jslowik]

On 8/5/2022 at 9:21 AM, wasab said:

i know at least they are using angular

 

 

 

At least floatplane.com (when logged in) is using React (or at least react in SOME way) according to the react dev plugin.

[wasab]

46 minutes ago, jslowik said:

 

At least floatplane.com (when logged in) is using React (or at least react in SOME way) according to the react dev plugin.

that is possible if they have other parts of the website developed in another framework. I work in the ecommerce space. One of my company's client has a bigcommerce website made using the stencil theme and my company took care of the laravel backend and the react webpage that comprised of its product/catalog search functionality. It was just one single react page embedded inside the larger project. 

 

In microservice architecture, everything and anything can be mix and match together. God knows how many dozens of technologies are used by neflix to build its site.