Case study

How MBC uses Orquestra to optimize its services

MBC — Sons de Angola grew from a simple audio player into a full music distribution ecosystem. To get there, it stopped treating engineering as one team in one place — and started orchestrating it across five countries with Orquestra.

The challenge: a platform outgrowing a single team

MBC (Music Business Corporation) runs a streaming platform for Angolan artists. As demand grew, so did the technical bar: low-latency range requests for audio, distributed caching, encrypted access tokens, and world-class data persistence. No single co-located team could own all of that at the required depth.

Instead of hiring for every specialty in one office, MBC chose a hybrid model: a local core team in Angola leading business logic, curation, and integration, while overseas consultancies and senior freelancers built the critical modules. Orquestra became the layer that kept all of it coherent.

How MBC optimizes services with Orquestra

The platform's value for MBC comes down to three things: knowing exactly who owns what, seeing effort and cost in real time, and turning that into reports leadership can act on.

• Module distribution. Every critical component — security, cloud storage, the PWA layer — is assigned to a named team with a location and a complexity level, so nothing falls between the cracks.
• Real-time effort tracking. MBC's coordination team watches hours and cost accumulate per team and per module, across every time zone, without chasing status updates.
• Audit-ready reporting. The same data becomes a confidential effort-distribution report for leadership — the kind that justifies a budget without a week of spreadsheet work.

"We delegate the hardest modules to the best specialists in the world — and Orquestra makes sure we still see the whole picture."

The component-assignment matrix

This is the breakdown MBC produced inside Orquestra — every critical module mapped to the team, location, nature of work, and complexity that owns it.

The outcome

By delegating storage directly to Cloudflare R2 with short-lived presigned URLs, MBC cut bandwidth costs significantly. Senior freelancers in Portugal shipped Service Workers that keep audio buffered even on low-end devices and unstable connections. And the security team, split between Germany and the US, hardened JWT handling and tuned the database for thousands of concurrent listeners.

The result is a platform that stays fluid for fans in Angola while being built by specialists on three continents — coordinated, audited, and reported from one place.