About Building Software Defined Infrastructure

As an industry, we’ve now ticked box one of “how to build IP infrastructures” by reliably streaming video, audio and metadata over enterprise IP networks. Now, we need to greatly simplify IP broadcast infrastructures to improve their operation and integration.

This series seeks to clarify what is meant by Software Defined Infrastructure, how its fundamental design philosophy is key to the next evolutionary step for broadcast systems, and how it can benefit broadcasters with scalability, reliability, resilience and very high levels of security.

We discuss the fundamental differences between virtualization and microservices and how microservice based systems go hand in hand with Software Defined Networks in the design and implementation of truly scalable systems.

The next phase of our IP enabled journey is going to be one of delivering simplicity and integration through microservices. For IP to become the success it promises, we need to look more closely at how we make it work operationally so that simplicity and integration become as easy as maintaining a high-quality internet mobile phone connection when walking from the office to the park.

Building Software Defined Infrastructure will publish in 4 parts. Details of all four parts can be found HERE.

About Part 3 – Monitoring Dynamic Resource

Part 3 is a free PDF download which contains four original articles:

Article 1 : Network Monitoring
The fundamental principles of how data flows through local and remote processing systems are central to designing software defined infrastructure.

Article 2 : Observability In Microservice Architecture
Building dynamic microservices based infrastructure introduces the potential for variable latency which brings new monitoring challenges that require an understanding of observability.

Article 3 : Making It Happen
Our partner Lawo discuss how software-defined hardware still has its uses in broadcast, but the real value for power users lies in hardware-agnostic processing apps—provided they meet the need for speed, availability, and agility.

Article 4 : Monitoring Microservice
Breaking production systems into individual microservice based processors, requires monitoring over IP via RESTful APIs and a database system to capture the results.