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About Boris and OlamOTT
Boris Molotsky is an Engineering Manager and hands-on technical lead working across Smart TV, web video, OTT playback, frontend architecture, and AI-assisted development workflows. His practical focus includes playback quality, streaming delivery, platform constraints, and production reliability.
OlamOTT is his independent technical site for practical OTT, CTV, Smart TV, web video, streaming technology, AI in OTT, courses, and technical articles. The site is written for people who work with video products and need grounded explanations of the constraints behind streaming experiences.
Professional focus
Boris writes from a practical technical perspective informed by production experience. The focus is on the details that affect real streaming products: OTT app architecture, Smart TV platform constraints, playback behavior, delivery systems, DRM and CDN awareness, QoE, and engineering decisions that need to hold up in production.
OTT app architecture
Practical notes on how streaming products fit together across app surfaces, playback flows, platform constraints, delivery paths, and product requirements.
Smart TV and web-video playback
Hands-on perspective on Smart TV and web video application development, including playback behavior, platform fragmentation, remote-control UX, and performance limits.
Streaming delivery and reliability
Coverage of playback quality, manifests, DRM awareness, CDN awareness, QoE, observability, and the production reliability details that shape real viewer experience.
AI in OTT and engineering workflows
Grounded exploration of AI as part of modern engineering workflow and video delivery exploration, without treating AI as a shortcut around domain knowledge.
Technical decision-making
A production-informed view of cross-functional tradeoffs, engineering communication, and building video products that remain understandable under real constraints.
Why OlamOTT exists
OlamOTT exists to make practical OTT and streaming-technology work easier to reason about. It connects technical articles, courses, and field notes around the problems that appear when playback, applications, devices, delivery systems, and product decisions meet.
You can start with the technical articles for current writing on Smart TV, web video, playback quality, and streaming delivery, or use the free learning material to build streaming foundations.
What readers can expect
- Technical articles on OTT, CTV, Smart TV development, playback, delivery, DRM, CDN behavior, QoE, and web video.
- Free learning material for streaming foundations and practical engineering concepts.
- Production-aware notes for developers, engineering managers, technical product people, and video/OTT professionals.
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Reach out for professional networking, technical discussions, collaboration, content feedback, or professional opportunities connected to OTT, Smart TV, web video, streaming technology, and AI in video.
Disclaimer: OlamOTT is an independent technical site created by Boris Molotsky. All articles, courses, examples, and opinions are my own and do not represent, reflect, or relate to my employer, clients, or any proprietary production system.