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Kaltura - the open source video platform
Kaltura is a LAMP based platform that manages all media operations starting from optimizing source videos for various devices and up to user interfaces for management and playback.
The session will walk attendees through the platform's clustered architecture and integration with multiple FOSS projects such as:
- Linux
- Apache
- MySQL
- PHP
- Memcached
- FFMPEG
- Sphinx
We will discuss:
- Design considerations in terms of security and scalability
- Optimization mechanisms used [Memcached, APC, Sphinx for full text searches]
- Means to achieve redundancy
- Use of Kaltura's RESTful API to achive full automation when integrating with external systems
Speaker bio:
Jess Portnoy has been an Open Source developer and believer for the last 17 years. Jess is currently a community manager and packaging lead at Kaltura. Prior to Kaltura, Jess worked, among other places, at Zend where she was responsible for porting and packaging PHP and Zend projects on all supported .*nix platforms. Jess also grows pets at sourceforge: (https://sourceforge.net/users/jessrpm) and NagiosExchange (http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Owner/jess0110/1)
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