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Case Studies, with

...and why you should use the cloud for your application needs

Weiyuan Liu

GDE, Google Cloud

Director Of Engineering, ZilLearn

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It’s overwhelming … but you don’t have to use everything

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“Live streaming” with

Case study I

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Problem Statement

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Problem Statement

No physical events
Need a live streaming solution that is

Easy to use
Affordable
Can stream to multiple destinations

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Solutions #1 - Streaming solutions - Facebook, Twitch

Solutions #2 - Free Open Source Solutions (OBS)

Solutions #3 - Streamyard

What if we just improve the current solution?

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Solutions #3! - Streamyard + DIY

Easy to use
Affordable
Can stream to multiple locations

And more...

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Solutions #3!! - “Anything” + DIY

Easy to use
Affordable
Can stream to multiple locations

And more...

Some RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard, Zoom, Google Meet)

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How?

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Architectural Diagram (Intention)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

RTMP Stream Mux

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Architectural Diagram (Compute Solutions?)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

Serverless?

FaaS?�IaaS?

Serverless - Easier to scale, maintain, harder to customize (Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions)��IaaS - Easier to customize, harder to maintain (Compute Engine)

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Architectural Diagram (Compute Solutions?)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

Serverless?

FaaS?�IaaS?

Serverless - Easier to scale, maintain, harder to customize (Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions)��IaaS - Easier to customize, harder to maintain (Compute Engine) NEED RTMP to be supported!

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Architectural Diagram (Compute Solution)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

VM Instance

Compute Engine

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Architectural Diagram (Compute Solution)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module

Compute Engine

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Nginx

Stunnel

… and Node

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Architectural Diagram (Compute Solution)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module

Compute Engine

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Architectural Diagram (Networking?)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module� (Port: 1935)

Compute Engine

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Architectural Diagram (Networking?)

Is it easy to use?

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module� (Port: 1935)

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

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Architectural Diagram (Containerization)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

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COS

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Architectural Diagram (Containerization)

Where to build the image?

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

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Architectural Diagram (CICD)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

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cloudbuild.yaml

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Architectural Diagram (CICD)

What about secrets?

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

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Architectural Diagram (Secrets?)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

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Secret management

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Architectural Diagram (Secrets)

What about access control?

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

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Architectural Diagram (Access Control)

Backing up the stream?

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1953)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

Cloud IAM

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Architectural Diagram (Backup)

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

Cloud IAM

Backup video files

Cloud Storage

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Cloud Storage Bucket

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Architectural Diagram

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

Cloud IAM

Backup video files

Cloud Storage

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Are you sure it’s easy to set it up?

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Architectural Diagram

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

Cloud IAM

Backup video files

Cloud Storage

Deployment Manager

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Deployment Config

Initialization Shell Script

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Architectural Diagram

RTMP Stream�(e.g. Streamyard)

And more...

NGINX Server,

RTMP module (Port: 1935)�Container-Optimized OS

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container-Optimized OS

Container Registry

Image Registry

Cloud Build

CICD Pipeline

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

Cloud IAM

Backup video files

Cloud Storage

Deployment Manager

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End Result

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Billing

Take note of your free quotas! - https://cloud.google.com/free

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Cloud Monitoring
Speech to Text - Speech API

Compute Engine

Cloud Network

Container Registry

Cloud Build

Secret Manager

Cloud IAM

Cloud Storage

Deployment Manager

Container-Optimized OS

Hosting Solution

Network Solution

Access Control

Storage Solution

Developer Tools

Now

Future

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Where do I start?

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“Conference Submissions” with

Case study II

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Problem Statement

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Problem Statement

Needed a cheap and easy to setup “conference submission tool”

What we have:

Project code for running a web server

What we need:

Hosting environment
Database
(Optional) Containerize application

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Architectural Diagram

Web Browsers

Cloud Run�(Serverless solution)�(Runs with Docker images)

Artifact Registry

Image Registry

Secret Manager

Secret + config repository

Cloud IAM

Cloud Run

Cloud SQL

Database

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Time costs:

Test the functionality locally of the OSS (3 h) (25%)
Dockerize application (4 h) (33%)
Integrating email functionality on code side (1 h) (8.3%)
Fixing bugs (1 h) (8.3%)
Cloud Deployment (3 h) (25%)

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Monetary costs (ignoring credits):

$2.09- 3.5 days

~ $18 - 30 days

Take note of your free quotas! - https://cloud.google.com/free

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Take note of your free quotas! - https://cloud.google.com/free

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References

Google Cloud in 4 Words - https://bit.ly/google-cloud-4-words
Google Cloud Events - https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/ and https://cloud.google.com/events
Google Cloud Free Tier - https://cloud.google.com/free

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twitter - @weiyuan_lane� github.com/Weiyuan-Lane

bit.ly/weiyuan-linkedin

Questions?

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