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History Hit

An online streaming platform for history content with hundreds of history documentaries, interviews and short films

This work was done as part of my employment at Scout Digital

2018

Responsibilities

  • Translating requirements into technical specifications
  • Designing database schema
  • Choosing appropriate stack
  • Select a viable host for application
  • Coding application to specification

Functionality

  • On demand video streaming utilising AWS APIs
  • Series and episode categorisation for videos with Alogila backend search
  • Custom CMS backend allowing administration of content, uploading videos, managing users and subscriptions
  • Integration with Braintree payment provider powering trials and subscriptions
  • User registration system and subscription management

Technologies

  • AWS Cloudfront + AWS S3 + AWS Elastic Transcoder + AWS SQS
  • Laravel + PHP
  • Redis
  • Algolia search
  • MySQL
  • Sass
  • Nginx

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