Company: XooX Inc. (Canada)
Project Dates: July 2006 - Present
Status: beta testing
URL: http://www.zippyvideos.com/
Technologies/Software:

  • nginx (reverse-proxy servers for frontend parts of site),
  • lighttpd (streaming servers cluster with application level balancing),
  • NFS (+set of php scripts for distributed storage implementation),
  • mplayer/mencoder (thumbnails, video files management, etc),
  • Flix SDK (flash videos encoding),
  • Linux VServer (provides better security for jailed software),
  • TinyDNS (Serving DNS for zippyvideos.com domain),
  • MySQL (multi-reader scheme with replication inside of mysql cluster),
  • PHP (own OO framework, system management automation),
  • Nagios (clusters monitoring)

Roles:

  • Unix System Administration,
  • Server Software and Scalable System Design,
  • Backend Development,
  • Some parts of Frontend Development