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Design a Live Video Streaming Platform is a hard system design interview question covering CDN, HLS, transcoding, real-time — the kind asked at FAANG (Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and AI-first companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia.
Design a live video streaming platform. Content creators should be able to broadcast live video to potentially millions of concurrent viewers with low latency.
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