ADN · Backend
Project lead & full-stack developer · 2025
Visit the site
Anime streaming at scale: 3 million monthly visitors.
The need
A legacy PHP/Joomla infrastructure that no longer handled the load: simulcast traffic spikes, blocking technical debt, and no way to ship new features (multi-profiles, downloads, billing).
My contribution
Within the backend team: Node.js/Express APIs, subscriptions and payments, video server load balancing.
What was delivered
Load times divided by 4, 200,000 recurring monthly subscribers, 3 million unique monthly visitors.
What I built
The backend of a streaming platform that has to absorb episode-release audience spikes.
APIs
The catalog and the simulcast, served by APIs.
Node.js/Express APIs for VOD, simulcast and the catalog.
Node.js · Express
Subscriptions
One subscription, several profiles.
Subscription and payment management, and Netflix-style multi-profiles.
Node.js · Express
Video
Video servers that hold the load.
Load balancing of the video and subtitle servers, built for simulcast traffic spikes.
AWS · Docker
Tech stack
- Interfaces
- ReactNext.js
- API
- Node.jsExpress
- Deployment
- AWSDocker
