Design video delivery for a streaming app: adaptive bitrate, CDN offload, and the metrics you watch when playback stalls.

Ladders and player logic are the warm-up. Cache topology, egress arithmetic, and knowing which quality metric actually predicts churn are what separate the answers.

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Ladders and player logic are the warm-up. Cache topology, egress arithmetic, and knowing which quality metric actually predicts churn are what separate the answers.

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