Analysis of the energy engine of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud "Low-Code Audio and Video Factory" - vPaaS video native application development platform

In order to meet the needs of enterprise users to quickly build high-quality exclusive audio and video services, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud's "low-code audio and video factory" came into being. , and the new development method contains a powerful energy engine, which is the "vPaaS video native application development platform".

What supports the launch of high-quality audio and video platforms in 15 minutes? — vPaaS emphasizes "high quality" at extreme speeds

There are precedents for the rapid construction and out-of-the-box audio and video application development products, but vPaaS is the first in the industry to truly realize a high-quality exclusive audio and video service platform with "full capabilities, customization, high reliability, and multiple scenarios".

Recently, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud officially released the "vPaaS low-code audio and video factory", which completely broke the industry's cumbersome system and technical barriers to audio and video development, and truly created the shortest path for audio and video application development for customers. Enterprise users can build an exclusive high-quality audio and video service platform with rich scene functions, high flexibility and customization, high reliability and high concurrency through 3-step integration, 10 lines of code, and the fastest 15 minutes.

Compared with the construction of traditional audio and video service platforms, enterprise users used to need to access individual atomic capabilities. The integration time of each capability was calculated in months, and a large amount of R&D personnel was required. "vPaaS low-code audio and video factory" reduces the time required for platform construction from months to days, and saves more than 90% of research and development time and personnel investment.

Low-code audio and video factories can break the technical barriers that have been accumulated for many years in traditional audio and video development. The technology base integrates MXDP multi-experience development technology, cloud-native services, and intelligent algorithms to create an open audio and video developer ecosystem.

Such technical platform capabilities provide enterprise users with lower access thresholds, easier expansion capabilities, higher flexibility, and more new scene extensions for the development of audio and video applications for enterprise users, thereby achieving lower comprehensive costs. Faster construction efficiency and higher platform quality.

What is the vPaaS video native application development platform? -It "newly defines" audio and video application development

The core logic of the overall vPaaS product is 1 base + N scenarios, that is, a video native application development platform + N audio and video business scenarios. The business layer constitutes e-commerce live broadcast, online classroom, corporate training, entertainment social, short video, etc. Product panorama of many scene forms. As a powerful base for low-code audio and video factories, the vPaaS video native application development platform is innovative and forward-looking.

For audio and video applications, vPaaS newly defines the development method, builds a big panorama of 1 technical base + N business scenarios, and can continuously enrich the thickness of the technical base and the breadth of business scenarios in the process of continuous innovation. The product layer and technology layer of the video platform shape infinite space, and this technology base plays an extremely important role as an engine.

From a technical point of view, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud defines a vPaaS video native application development platform as: a cloud-native, audio and video application development platform built around multiple experience technologies, with a complete development ecology, with cloud integration, extreme flexibility, An audio and video application development platform with cross-center and cross-platform consistent experience.

This is a cloud-integrated platform architecture. Cloud refers to cloud platform services, and client refers to the core of the client and the API encapsulated by the client. The cloud and the client are connected together through long links.

The platform service layer includes business services, audio and video media services, basic long-link services, scenario application services, and model room service hosting platforms, with multi-center and elastic scaling capabilities to ensure service stability.

The core of the client is a cross-terminal and cross-platform implementation. A set of codes and APIs are consistent across multiple terminals to ensure a unified access experience for all terminals. At the same time, the client will adapt to various mainstream development frameworks.

Around this structure, the platform will continue to make forward-looking technological evolution, and through co-creation with customers, explore new scenarios and new capabilities, and continue to commercialize new technologies and deliver them to more enterprise users.

The technical potential of vPaaS? —It analyzes the "future evolution" of the audio and video platform

The vPaaS video native application development platform is open, extensible, and profound. At the same time, combined with the multi-end and multi-experience requirements of audio and video services, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud has made technological evolution of the platform in four directions: multi-experience low-code development , cloud native hosting, AI algorithm scenario, audio and video application factory.

is a multi-experience low-code development platform.

The meaning of multi-experience is that audio and video need to be experienced on multiple ends, so that users can listen, watch, interact, and interact in a consistent manner. To put it simply, to ensure a consistent experience across all terminals and platforms, it is called multiple experiences. The focus of multi-experience low-code development is the integration of multi-experience technology and low-code development technology.

The multi-experience technology provides a cross-platform and cross-terminal consistent experience for vPaaS video native applications. Therefore, the platform will continue to build various terminal capabilities, including web page applications, mobile terminals, smart devices, and even more VR/AR terminals. Multi-device, multi-platform, to create a consistent experience RoomEngine SDK.

On the basis of multi-experience technology, low-code technology is used to lower the development threshold. The first is product provisioning and configuration. vPaaS is activated through multi-product linkage, unifying the console and simplifying tedious configuration. If the customer uses multiple cloud products in the same scenario, the steps of provisioning and configuration can be greatly reduced, from the original difficult implementation to a few minutes. After the activation and configuration are completed, a complete video application experience can be obtained through the integration of 10 lines of code through the scene model product provided by vPaaS. Reduce the integration time from the original one week or one month to more than 10 minutes.

The scenario model room product is an end-to-end standard model implementation with UI provided by vPaaS, and also provides a wealth of extension development APIs in the standard implementation to realize development and business connection. In the future, the multi-experience low-code technology will continue to evolve to provide richer scene sample rooms to achieve high-quality platform construction with cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

turn, this is a cloud-native video application platform.

In the low-code audio and video factory, customers can choose to assemble and configure the scene model room, and the services behind it have actually been deployed to the cloud-native cluster, so as to conduct the full life cycle hosting of the scene model room service.

For the customer, the product provided is a product with a formed UI, with an SDK and can be integrated into the customer's own APP. All the assembly and access services behind the SDK are assembled by the customer through the service in the scene model room. During the process, it has been deployed on the cloud-native platform of the model room to ensure that the terminal and the cloud are fully compatible and run smoothly.

At the same time, the visual function assembly, configuration maintenance of the console, the easiest code access, dynamic assembly, integrated SDK configuration, and micro-application/modular service expansion are all important values of low-code development.

Based on Alibaba Cloud's cloud-native technology, the low-code audio and video factory can achieve one-click service deployment, scalable and grayscale service capabilities, as well as visual service management and complete service monitoring. This includes the whole process guarantee of cloud native technology, mature container products and operation and maintenance technology; at the same time, it has the characteristics of application deployment, resource isolation, monitoring and alarming, and elastic expansion, which can reduce the operation cost of future audio and video business services. This is the product cloud-native audio and video application platform.

Furthermore, this is an AI smart base for audio and video scenes, and an all-media AI smart platform.

When the platform has a cloud-integrated architecture, it can integrate other various algorithm capabilities and enhancement capabilities in the ecosystem into the base of the client, and integrate the cloud-integrated algorithms into the service. Full-link blessing improves the full-link experience of audio and video applications.

Previously, the integration of many algorithms needed to be completed by customers themselves, but today, low-code audio and video factories can productize all algorithms and integrate them into out-of-the-box capabilities for customers.

For example: whether it is an e-commerce live broadcast or an online class, the intelligent assistant function can provide intelligent algorithms on the terminal and the service side at the same time, and can also allow the intelligent assistant to automatically help customers answer questions, chat barrage control, and real-time voice interaction. For example, let the intelligent assistant turn the page PPT during the live broadcast, it can be completed intelligently.

Finally, this is also a huge application factory for audio and video scenes.

The audio and video scene application factory is the basic application base of Alibaba Cloud's application best practices in the cloud.

Why do you say that?

With the support of the cloud-integrated cloud-native application engine, the platform can help customers have the ability to build application infrastructure, build a complete cloud-integrated technology base, and become the base with no R&D capabilities and the best application.

Taking the foundation of long-term connections as an example, the application factory can open up APIs for business long-term connections, so that business data can also be streamed on long-term connections, and at the same time provide efficient audio and video media connections for stable transmission of audio and video data. .

In application development, it is necessary to consider the technical solutions for RPC calls between the client and the server. When the customer's technical research and development manpower is limited, simple technical solutions are often used, such as the simplest http/https call. The vPaaS platform provides the long-term connection technology with the best practice of Alibaba Cloud cloud integration. Based on the application of the vPaaS platform, the platform SDK can open the RPC interface of the long-term connection and make RPC calls, which is more stable and achievable than the ordinary http/https method. products with better experience.

In the future, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud will implement application development and construction, grayscale control, data stability assurance, etc. on this platform, providing customers with a new development method for audio and video applications.

As the energy engine of low-code audio and video factories, the "vPaaS video native application development platform" brings five advantages to the rapid construction of audio and video services: low access threshold, strong expansion capability, high flexibility and customizability, high reliability and high concurrency, and multiple scenarios Support, these advantages can help enterprise users to quickly build exclusive high-quality audio and video service platforms at the lowest comprehensive cost.

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