Building an extensible video player on top of a structured concurrency framework

What is it about?

Handling of software dependencies and managing asynchronous concurrent code are challenges of developing modern software. In this article we present a software framework (Phoenix framework) we developed that uniquely solves these 2 different aspects . We have shown how this framework cannot only be used in theory to simplify extensibility and maintenance but how it can also be applied in a real-world application and result in improved performance. We used this framework to build a video player by Bitmovin, PWX (Player Web X). In this paper we present the benefits of doing so in extensibility and performance.

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Why is it important?

Our findings show that: 1) Structured Concurrency enhances performance and robustness and developer experience 2) Plugin-based architecture ensures flexibility and scalability 3) Phoenix Framework simplifies video player development