Remotion

Since the cost and effort required to create video has been dramatically decreasing over the last few years I’ve been using it more and more to explain system architectures. To show the impact it can have I took some time to document my hobby project - https://marketfinder.us. The way it harvests the data (pun fully intended) is interesting, and has lots of checkpoints and observation opportunities that make this type of system something I can operate solo. ...

That’s Slonik up there in the storyboard image, a friendly PostgreSQL elephant sitting behind a desk under a neon “OPEN FOR BUSINESS” sign, watching a line of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) shipping containers wait their turn at the door. He was going to star in a video about Azure Private Link. He had a co-star, too: Ricky the Raccoon, our hacker, who shows up first in a hard hat with a jackhammer, then in a top hat and monocle, and finally in a fedora and trench coat where he’s figured out how to spin up his own Azure VM and walk straight in through the “Allow public access from any Azure service” checkbox. There was a circus tent, somewhere in Act 2, representing the entirety of Azure’s customer base flooding through that checkbox like a carnival. ...