Best practices

There are four best practice areas for Performance Efficiency in the cloud: selection, review, monitoring, and tradeoffs.

• Selection

• Review

• Monitoring

• Tradeoffs

Viewers expect low latency, high quality, consistent viewing experiences that load immediately. In this section, we review the key selection criteria for transport and origination of media to help you choose the right tools for your architecture. We also provide a set of monitoring metrics that, if implemented, will help you baseline your expected performance, detect any deviance, and take actions to improve your workload over time. Finally, we examine common architecture tradeoffs to improve performance, like reducing segment size to reduce live latency at the expense of request overhead or increasing bitrate to improve video quality at the expense of bandwidth costs.