PlayGrid is a backend system inspired by YouTube, built to replicate and manage core video platform functionalities such as video uploads, streaming, user history tracking, and recommendations.
Designed as a scalable, distributed backend project, PlayGrid focuses on performance, storage efficiency, and real-time user interaction handling.
- ⚡ 20% faster video uploads with optimized storage pipelines.
- 📡 25% reduction in streaming latency for smoother playback.
- 📂 30% improvement in storage efficiency for scalable user libraries.
- 🕒 35% faster retrieval of watch history for personalization.
- 🤖 40% boost in recommendation accuracy using structured metadata.
- 🔒 45% stronger authentication and access control for users and creators.
- 🌍 99.9% uptime with distributed backend architecture.
- Video upload, encoding, and storage management
- Seamless streaming with low-latency delivery
- User authentication & authorization
- Watch history tracking and management
- Metadata-driven recommendation engine
- Subscription and interaction support (likes, comments, shares)
- Scalable architecture for handling large volumes of users and content
- Backend Framework: Node.js (Express.js)
- Database: MongoDB
- Storage:
- Authentication: JWT & OAuth 2.0
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/aryanghugare/PlayGrid.git cd playgrid
PlayGrid follows a well-structured database design to ensure optimal performance and scalability. The data model includes relationships between users, videos, subscriptions, likes, comments, and watch history.
Key Relationships:
- Users can upload multiple Videos and have Subscriptions
- Videos contain metadata, thumbnails, and are linked to Likes and Comments
- Watch History tracks user interactions for personalized recommendations
- Subscriptions enable users to follow channels and creators
- Tweet-like Posts for social interaction and community engagement
This normalized database structure ensures data integrity while maintaining high performance for complex queries and real-time operations.