In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV about the tech stack used to deliver streaming TV content, build Apple TV apps, host media, and more.

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Show Notes

• 00:36 Welcome
• 02:15 Guest introduction
• fbritoferreira.com

@SkyShowtime

Peacock

04:13 What do the systems look like inside of Sky?

GraphQL

Redis

Apollo GraphQL

06:26 Do you use federation?

07:50 How do you handle caching?

11:24 What’s the tech stack for the front end?

13:30 Do you cache on client side?

15:27 How long has Sky been serverless?

16:55 Sponsor: Gatsby

18:05 How was Sky’s Apple TV app built?

21:17 Where did you host media?

AWS Streaming

Mux

24:37 Supporting live events

28:03 Sponsor: Storyblok

30:05 What language are you writing the GraphQL layer?

The Guild

32:22 How do you define your types?

36:40 Supper Club questions

Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID

Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad

44:28 Sponsor: ReTool

45:22 AppWrite

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