Podcast / Audio Platform (Python, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, S3, Redis) overview

A podcast hosting and audio distribution platform with FastAPI serving the backend API for episode management, RSS feed generation, and analytics ingestion. React powers the web player and creator dashboard with waveform visualization and episode scheduling. PostgreSQL stores podcast metadata, subscriber data, and listen analytics. S3 provides cost-effective audio file storage with CDN distribution for global playback. Redis caches popular feed responses and manages real-time listener counts. Python handles audio transcoding and metadata extraction. Targeted at media companies building white-labeled podcast infrastructure. The tradeoff is audio transcoding cost at scale and the complexity of generating accurate download/listen analytics that comply with IAB measurement standards.