We met up as a team to come up with more specific metrics for our use case requirements. In order to meet these use case requirements, we had to flesh out video specs (1080p 60fps 8-12 min), video obtainment (Youtube Creative Commons), the type of VM we would use (AWS EC2 T4g, T3, H1), end-user simulation (varying video watching behavior), and load balancing algorithms (round-robin, CPU decider, response-based UCB1).
In the upcoming week, we hope to obtain our AWS credits to be able to test the connectivity of our server architecture. Assuming this goes well, we will then move on to building and deploying the video web application without our customizable load balancer.