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Distributed Video Processing Pipeline

Design a distributed video processing pipeline that ingests videos from users, processes them (e.g., transcoding, thumbnail generation), and serves them for playback on various devices. The system should be fault-tolerant and handle high volumes of concurrent processing requests.

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media streamingmicroservicesdata storage

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