Case Study: Music Royalty Streaming - TnY Systems
Case Study: Music Tech

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How TnY Systems architected a Real-Time Streaming Pipeline to disrupt music royalty payouts for 25,000+ artists, enabling a market-first "Daily Pay" model.

Latency

99.9%

Reduction (<15 Mins)

Throughput

100M+

Daily Stream Events

Product

Daily Pay

Live for 25k+ Artists

The Legacy Trap

The Friction of Batch Processing

The client's ecosystem relied on fragmented API pulls from Spotify and Apple Music, processed in monthly batches. This "Legacy Wagon" approach created opaque reporting, leaving artists blind to their earnings for 90 days.

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  • 90-Day Reporting Lag

    Stale financial data prevented agile decision-making and frustrated artists.

  • Data Fragmentation & Opacity

    No single source of truth across DSPs, hiding granular song-level performance metrics.

The Innovation

Cloud-Native Streaming Engine

We engineered a Dual Lambda Architecture on AWS. By decoupling ingestion (Amazon MSK) from processing (AWS Glue/Spark), we achieved sub-second latency while maintaining audit-grade accuracy.

APIs AWS Stream
01

Ingestion: Amazon MSK (Kafka)

High-throughput buffer seamlessly handling millions of stream events per second directly from DSP APIs.

02

Processing: AWS Glue (Spark)

Real-time currency normalization (EUR/USD) and execution of complex smart contract royalty splits.

03

Hybrid Storage Strategy

Hot Store (RDS): Instant dashboard access.
Cold Store (S3 Parquet): Long-term audit & compliance via Athena.

Business Impact

Turning Technical Excellence into Financial Results

Market Leadership

Client became the first aggregator to offer "Daily Advances," capturing significant market share from legacy competitors.

Data Transparency

Artists moved from opaque PDF statements to a live, interactive dashboard showing granular song-level earnings.

Scalability

Architecture successfully stress-tested at 100M+ events/day with zero downtime during peak release windows.

Financial Accuracy

Replaced manual spreadsheet reconciliation with automated logic, completely eliminating critical payout calculation errors.

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