Enhancing Video Streaming Quality with CMCD and Cloud-Native Analytics

In this video, Chao Yin Loong, cloud solutions architect at Akamai Technologies, discusses the use cases of streaming analytics and the Common Media Client Data (CMCD) standard to enhance video streaming quality. He highlights the properties of cloud-native modern databases that enable effective storage and real-time querying of large amounts of analytical data. The video also covers the downsides of traditional data warehouse architecture and the benefits of a shared storage architecture for cost reduction and scalability. The main focus is on the CMCD standard, its purpose, and the problems it addresses in terms of CDN log interpretation and QoE (Quality of Experience) metrics. He explains how CMCD enables the exchange of beneficial media-related information between players and CDNs and provides an overview of the use cases for the CMCD standard. 0:00 Introduction 2:32 Design and limitations of traditional data warehouse architecture 3:30 Benefits of modern OLAP databases, with example 6:19 What is the CMCD standard? 11:21 Information contained in the CMCD standard 16:07 Use cases for CMCD 21:36 Q & A