06Writing
Notes from a company that broadcasts and builds.
Engineering decisions, operational lessons and the occasional post-mortem — written by the people doing the work.
- stations
Sapphire Reggae joins the network
Our fourth station is live. The interesting part is not the launch — it is that adding it took a configuration change rather than a deployment.
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What four stations taught us about failover
Redundancy is easy to design and hard to trust. Running four services at once forced us to be honest about which failures we had actually tested.
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Why we build our own playout
Off-the-shelf broadcast automation is built for a shape of station we are not. Here is what we needed instead, and what it cost to build.
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