This article is targeted to anyone who is looking to deliver Mp4 videos over internet. It provides technical details about the metadata that can hamper good encoding and delivery, causing poor playback performance. An atom is a self-contained data unit containing information about the video file. The moov atom, aka…

This article explains how you can show screensavers from your own app instead of AndroidTV’s default one by provided by Chromecast. If you are an AndroidTV developer then you know that there is not much good documentation available for developing apps for TV, and more often than not you keep…

In this article I will explain the process of hosting a production-ready ReactJS app on CentOS as static site and then handling client-side routing which otherwise would result in 404 on direct load or page refresh. — When developing in ReactJS, running your app for testing is easy since you could use npm to run a quick dev-server and be done with it. Things get complicated when you need to host your ReactJs app for production. There are multiple ways to do that including serving directly with…

There are plenty of article of hosting an app on Linux systems, most of these are for Ubuntu and uses Nginx, however for those developers or DevOps teams who are using Apache on CentOS, this info is little scattered. …

What’s burning. What’s good. And what’s next. Everything around us is going through the change forced upon by the recent global pandemic; businesses who had their operations planned out around the year based on intelligence from historical data were forced to adopt a new strategy to function — most of…

In this post I will be explaining the workflow of tracking of ad playback and user-engagement with ads by Server-Side Ad Insertion providers. If you are looking for a place to start with understanding Dynamic Ad Insertion I recommend you read this great article by Eyevinn Technology. The need of Ad Tracking To allow advertisers…

In this post I will explain how JavaScript works asynchronously even though it is a single-threaded language Ever come across setTimeout() functions in JavaScript? You have probably used it to delay some processing to wait for some other operation to be completed, or in certain cases to mitigate those nasty…