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Systems Engineering Case Studies

Documenting real-world architectural challenges, traffic spikes, streaming bottlenecks, and the technical solutions implemented across our production platforms.

Flagship Case Study 14 min read Sub-2.5s Latency

Building SportyXi: High-Concurrency Low-Latency Sports Streaming Architecture

A comprehensive 13-section architectural breakdown detailing our custom Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS) pipeline, origin shield mutex request collapsing, client-side ABR stepping, and responsive pitch overlays.

1. The Latency Problem
2. Product Concept
3. Target Audience
4. Product Architecture
5. Streaming Experience
6. Frontend Code
7. Backend Services
8. Performance Tuning
9. UX Decisions
10. Concurrency Challenges
11. Origin Solutions
12. Key Lessons Learned

Upcoming Whitepapers

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Market Pilot: Ingesting 10k Ticks/Sec with Redis Streams

How we designed zero-copy asynchronous WebSocket ingestion pipelines in Python and Go to feed time-series predictive sentiment models.

Graph RAG Drafting

Vaxa AI: Eliminating LLM Hallucinations via Hybrid Vector Indexing

A rigorous look at Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), cross-encoder rerankers, and citation verification algorithms in enterprise knowledge search.

Product: Vaxa AI Overview