What is the Datatecture?
The Data Landscape of the Streaming Video Industry
First, the datatecture is a picture of the technology categories involved in streaming. Not all are required, depending upon the purpose of the streaming platform (i.e., education vs. direct-to-consumer), but they exist in the streaming architecture regardless.
Second, the datatecture is an inventory of the companies which offer services and technologies in those categories within the streaming video technology stack. Covering three core areas, Infrastructure, Operations, and Workflow, each of the companies categorized into various sub-groups provide many of the critical elements for a streaming platform ranging from data analytics to encoding. What’s equally important, though, is that each of the company’s products, services, or technologies contributes data to the overall picture of the streaming platform’s performance and efficiency.
Optimizing Streaming Video Through Better Observability
Right now, the industry has a challenge: how to optimize the creation, delivery, transformation, and operationalization of streaming video. Doing so requires harnessing all of the data from within the video technology stack: operations, infrastructure, and the delivery workflow. But it can be difficult to understand what data is coming from which provider. That’s where the datatecture comes in. This mapping of the different technology providers within streaming gives operators a way to shape their streaming ecosystem, through partnerships and relationships, so that they have clarity on the data that’s available to them.
How Datazoom Can Help
Once you have created the datatecture for your streaming platform, Datazoom can help you get the data from the individual vendors into the tools you need. By working with Datazoom, you don’t have to worry about building or maintaining individual data pipes with specific components. Datazoom enables you to do that quickly and easily through an intuitive interface of Collectors and Connectors. Finally, all of the data that flows through Datazoom to your visualization tools or datalake, can be normalized against Datazoom’s data dictionary to provide the consistency you need for true observability.
Operations
This part of the datatecture deals with operating and monitoring the components and infrastructure involved in streaming.
Operations
Some common operations elements include configuration management, monitoring, and analytics.
Infrastructure
The part of the datatecture deals with the underlying network architecture and other software or equipment needed to facilitate delivery.
Infrastructure
Some common infrastructure elements include containers, object storage, and data warehouses.
Workflow
This part of the datatecture addresses the components and technologies installed in the infrastructure and monitored through operations.
Workflow
Some common workflow components include encoding, security, transformation, delivery, and playback.
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