Audiobook streaming platform on AWS stack and Ruby on Rails

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.

• 1 Streaming (HLS) vs progressive download
• 2 Convert mp3 files to a streaming-ready format
• 3 How do I use ActiveJob to track the progress of long-running remote tasks?
• 4 Securing Amazon Cloudfront stream with signed cookies
• 5 Accessing Cloudfront stream with VideoJS and server-side signed cookies