IflixMedia

A media operation needing four products maintained by one team.

A media operation needing streaming, radio, TV, news publishing, and advertising in one place — with a single team to maintain it. The conventional answer would be microservices and a polyglot stack.

The right answer was the opposite.

Choose the boring architecture that ships.

"Microservices solve organisational problems, not technical ones."

For a platform maintained by a single team, a monolith keeps deployment simple, debugging straightforward, and the codebase navigable. Laravel 12 anchors the backend; Inertia + React powers a SPA-feel frontend without the overhead of a separate API; Filament administers content; Shoutcast handles audio.

One framework, four products.

Every part of the stack chosen for clarity over fashion. The monolith is the feature, not the constraint.

Five modules, one codebase.

• Persistent audio player React component that survives navigation — radio keeps playing while readers browse news.
• Radio module Multiple station support with live indicators and metadata.
• TV module Live indicators, scheduled programming, embedded video.
• News publishing workflow Editorial pipeline from draft to scheduled to published, managed in Filament.
• Advertising engine Campaign management with placement controls, scheduling, and reporting.

Four things that changed.

• Single codebase. One team can ship features across stream, radio, TV, news, and ads without context-switching across services.
• Predictable deployment. Monolith means one build, one deploy, one rollback path.
• Editorial velocity. Filament admin lets non-technical editors publish without developer intervention.
• Lower hosting cost. One VPS instead of an orchestration cluster.