Audiobook streaming platform on AWS stack and Ruby on Rails

27 Apr 2021

Piotr discusses how he implemented an audiobook streaming site in Rails, along with the challenges he faced.

Audiobooks tend to take up a lot of disk space so often streaming is the only practical method of delivery. Piotr writes about using AWS to convert MP3s and using Cloudfront to handle the streaming.

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Audiobook streaming platform on AWS stack and Ruby on Rails

“Meticulously pragmatic and exquisitely articulate, Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby makes otherwise elusive knowledge available to an audience which desperately needs it. The prescriptions are appropriate both as rules for novices and as guidelines for experienced professionals.”

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