A media micro-service centric model to unleash benefits to vendors and media companies.
Will disrupt the boundaries of business models by securely exposing composable media services at scale.
There will be no market reach limitation since cloud native media services will distribute resiliently across geographies.
Down to the minute pay as you go service model will enable a variety of micro content licensing and distribution.
No more lock-in to media sector specific vendors.
The impact of digital transformation on media and entertainment (M&E) sector is reshaping traditional media services and the way solution vendors think, design and market their products. Audience consuming habits shifts from traditional, linear viewing hours, to pervasive, any time, any device, any location patterns, broadcasters find themselves on a hard track to keep up their infrastructure with a consumption model that defies both operational and business models.
Solution vendors are already adapting themselves to this new reality. An increasing number of cloud based solutions offerings are the current stage of a transformation journey that started on traditional, purpose specific components, migrating to software based solution running Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, now are leveraging the advantages from cloud economy of scale to cope with diverse business and media consumption models that arises.
The next stage of this digital transformation is the scope of this paper. Shape the foreseeable future of media services under the light of micro-services and serverless architectures. Through a set of reference models and conceptual architectures, this paper explains the journey to achieve a cloud-native media micro-services.