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Accessibility is at the heart of our concerns, at Bedrock Streaming we work hard to make our applications accessible to everyone. In this article, I’m going to share with you how my team and I improved our accessibility score of our SmartTV apps by 18% in just a few months! This improvement is even more impressive because on smartTV we have to manage several constraints, including taking into account the specificities of each device (Tizen, WebOS, Hisense, Panasonic, etc.).

One of the core experiences of a Bedrock app for the end user is browsing the catalog. Scrolling vertically through blocks of content, and scrolling horizontally through lists of items. However, TVs do not offer high performance and provide poor user experience during heavy resource actions. We especially noticed that scrolling horizontally in a list was laggy and unpleasant. This article focuses on performance optimization to enhance the horizontal scroll experience on Smart TVs.

Attending the Golab conference in Florence has been a thrilling experience for us as developers. Immersing ourselves in talks by some of the most brilliant minds in the Go community gave us a deeper understanding of advanced concepts, practical libraries, and the future of Go. We’ve summarized the key takeaways from the talks we attended to share some of the valuable lessons and fresh perspectives we gained.

During the UEFA Euro football cup in June and July 2024, M6 broadcasted several matches. Of course, this competition was available, live, on M6+. For every user joining right from the first second and or for all users hearing their neighbors shouting and wanting to re-watch the action, starting a live video stream had to work!

Nous avons eu la chance de participer à la conférence We love speed, une conférence annuelle axée sur la performance du web. C’est un domaine qui nous passionne et nous sommes très content d’avoir pu y assister. Le thème de cette édition, c’est l’INP. En effet, cette métrique de performance a été ajoutée aux core web vitals par Google récemment. L’objectif de cette métrique est de refléter l’expérience utilisateur en mesurant la réactivité d’une application. Elle observe le temps entre une action utilisateur et une réponse visuelle de notre interface.

At Bedrock, we develop a streaming solution tailored for European media companies. Our application is a customizable white-label product used by millions across Europe. Bedrock’s clients have high expectations for stability, early incident detection, quick resolution, and effective communication during those times. Naturally, our goal is to deliver a stable product, and we dedicate significant effort toward this objective.

Let’s dive together into the depths of a large scale template versioning for a white label streaming application.

The Frontend Bedrock teams were present at the 2024 edition of the JS Nation and React Summit conferences in Amsterdam on 13 & 14 June. We would like to highlight and share some of the subjects we find relevant about our favourite language and framework 🙂 Feel free to explore them further if you are interested.

Earlier this year took place the Euro soccer competition, spanning over a month and with thousands of people tuning all over the world to watch the matches. One of our customers, M6+, was streaming several of these games - And during the competition, hundreds of thousands of browsers, phones and TVs were able to seamlessly stream the matches with no major issue at all. It was, however, no easy feat to reach that state. How did we do that? What were the challenges we faced, the solutions we envisioned? In this article, we’ll discuss one of the features we developed specifically for the Euro: something that we called the “Special Event Page”.

Bien que cela fasse près de 18 mois que nous n’avons pas publié une nouvelle fournée de Dev Facts, nos équipes ont continués à alimenter la pile des perles des développeurs. Et du coup, double fournée !!