OKAY, I am sober and read this again very carefully. Here's what I think of specific 3rd party/FOSS solutions for each of the components. Before I start, I wo

OKAY, I am sober and read this again very carefully. Here's what I think of specific 3rd party/FOSS solutions for each of the components. Before I start, I wonder if anyone has seen that slideshare I posted, it talks about creating single functions and services (daemon), essentially acting as their own islands, connected all through a central RabbitMQ, hooked up to http front end nodejs servers. So this is a summary of my understanding of the subject so far. Another fact to consider regarding ddos, exploiters. I really don't know, I was thinking rackspace or some kind of front end host that is able to handle it. I mean all in all, the REST web service just returns a simple 200 OK or a media file. No templating (but it might be good to have some templating or user session like Flask <---don't know how to scale). So far, I love the design process you've laid out. And you are absolutely right, I should approach this with design problem solving set of mind. I'm going to summarize what I've read, in order to get a feedback and/or bounce off ideas. I have to tell it like a story because I feel like that's how I understand and remember things efficiently. Users watching a video, wants to convert this great youtube meme video to an animated gif. he just appents someserviceio.com/http://youtube.com/v?23uf7wg/convertedvideo.gif http://youtube.com/v?23uf7wg/convertedvideo.gif the browser loads for the duration. it might be a good idea to put some UI notification here, simple message of what's going on in the background. Once again, I need a way to notify the user in the browser as the event happens in the backend. need a stack suggestion here. for short videos, when they type it in. it should just load up the convertedvideo.gif animated picture in the browser. but for longer videos, they should receive notification. I don't know, what do you think? Ultimately, I do need some sort of security. For example, only have registered users have access to more functions. they could do something like http://someserviceio.com/my@email.com/secretKey/batchConvertVideos{WedJSIM0,cw1cZx,Mdpn2} http://someserviceio.com/my@email.com/secretKey/batchConvert...