Building Production-Ready IPTV: From GPU Capacity Planning to High-Load Failover

This technical guide bridges the gap between IPTV marketing claims and production reality. It addresses critical challenges—GPU capacity constraints under watermarking, staggered stress testing to prevent deadlocks, hybrid CPU-GPU workload balancing, active-active Kubernetes failover, JWT token security, and bare metal cost advantages. Engineers will gain practical knowledge for deploying reliable, high-capacity streaming systems at scale.