WebRTC

Running a voice AI platform in production means paying for five things every call touches: the WebRTC/SFU transport layer that carries the audio, speech-to-text (STT), the LLM that decides what to say, text-to-speech (TTS), and the hosting, bandwidth, and observability underneath all of it. Most public cost breakdowns only price the AI components and quietly […]

LiveKit and Mediasoup are both open-source Selective Forwarding Units (SFUs) for building real-time WebRTC video and voice, but they sit at different levels of the stack. LiveKit is a batteries-included platform: a Go SFU plus official client SDKs, room and participant management, recording/streaming (egress), an AI-agents framework, and an optional managed cloud. Mediasoup is a […]

The OpenAI Realtime API lets a browser or mobile app hold a spoken conversation with a model in near real time — audio in, audio out, over a single low-latency connection. Over WebRTC, that connection is a standard peer connection: your server mints a short-lived ephemeral token, the browser opens an RTCPeerConnection, adds the microphone track, […]

Compare the top WebRTC and video app development companies of 2026 — specialization, compliance, media-server expertise, and proof points for buyers.

Three architectures carry almost every WebRTC video product, and they differ in one thing: where the media flows. Peer-to-peer (P2P) connects participants directly, with no media server in the path. An SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) receives each participant’s stream once and forwards it to everyone else without re-encoding it. An MCU (Multipoint Control Unit) receives every stream, mixes and transcodes them […]

WebRTC is the browser-native protocol for interactive, two-way real-time communication — calls, telehealth, conferencing — with proven sub-250ms latency. MoQ (Media over QUIC) is an emerging IETF standard built on QUIC for scalable one-to-many streaming, unifying live, time-shifted, and on-demand delivery through a publish-subscribe relay model. They solve different problems. As of 2026 they coexist […]

To migrate from Twilio Video means moving your signaling, media routing, and client SDKs off a managed CPaaS onto either another managed video API or your own WebRTC infrastructure. First, the record straight: Twilio Programmable Video is not being discontinued. Twilio announced an End-of-Life for December 2026 back in March 2024, then reversed that decision in October 2024 — […]

A real-time AI content moderation pipeline is the combination of three things: extracting frames and audio from a live media stream, running AI inference on them, and returning an enforcement action — mute, kick, flag, or blur — back to the session fast enough that harmful content never reaches viewers. The central engineering decision is where […]

A WebRTC rescue is what happens when a live video product is failing — calls drop, connections hang on “connecting,” audio goes one-way — and the team that owns the code can’t find the root cause. Usually the codebase was inherited or built by a team that has moved on, and the engineers left holding it are […]

“Should we build on WebRTC or wait for MOQ?” That’s the question we heard three times last month from startup CTOs planning their video platforms. Each time, our answer surprised them. The short version: in 2026, you’re almost certainly building on WebRTC. But the longer answer — about when MOQ makes sense, where WebRTC breaks, […]

“So… are we still betting on WebRTC?” Last month, during a discovery call with a SaaS founder, we heard that exact question. The team was planning a major upgrade of their video collaboration platform. They wanted to know whether WebRTC was still the right foundation. They had read about MOQ and QUIC. They had seen […]

“Should we switch to AV1 for our video platform?” we’ve heard this question at least a dozen times in the past six months from product managers looking to optimize their WebRTC applications. The answer keeps surprising them: probably not yet. Despite years of hype, better compression numbers that look amazing on paper, and backing from […]

“We need sub-second latency for our live streaming platform.” That’s what the founder told us last week. When we asked what they were building, they said it was a sports broadcasting app for casual viewing — not betting, not interactive, just watching games. Our next question surprised them: “Why do you need sub-second latency for […]

The Stability vs. Engagement Tradeoff in Modern Dating Apps The evolution of video features in dating applications has created a fascinating technical crossroads. While live video dates promise real-time connection and authenticity, async video profiles offer a fundamentally different infrastructure model — one that prioritizes stability, cost efficiency, and scalability over spontaneous interaction. Understanding this […]

Preventing Infrastructure Overload Through Smart Architecture Selective Forwarding Units (SFUs) have become the backbone of modern video dating applications, enabling real-time connections between users without the computational overhead of traditional MCU architectures. But there’s a critical paradox: the very features that make video dating appealing — spontaneity, instant connections, and simultaneous sessions — are precisely […]

Understanding the UX and Infrastructure Collision in Video Dating Instant video calling sounds like the ultimate feature for dating apps — the promise of immediate, authentic connection at the tap of a button. Product teams envision users swiping, matching, and jumping straight into face-to-face conversations within seconds. The reality? Instant video features consistently show 20-40% […]

“We’re thinking about upgrading to 4K for our video platform.” That’s what a startup CTO told us last month. His team was planning significant infrastructure investment to support higher resolution streams — more storage, more bandwidth, more server capacity. Our response surprised him: “What if you don’t need to send 4K at all?” In 2026, […]

A telehealth startup recently discovered that its video consultations worked beautifully in Seattle but struggled in rural Montana. Latency spiked to 800ms, doctor-patient conversations felt unnatural, and patient satisfaction scores dropped. The diagnosis? All video processing happened in a single AWS region, thousands of miles from half their users. The solution wasn’t faster internet — […]

Video calling has become a cornerstone feature in modern dating applications. According to recent industry reports, dating platforms with integrated video calling see 40% higher user engagement and 25% better match conversion rates. However, implementing real-time video communication at scale presents unique technical challenges, particularly when balancing bandwidth efficiency, CPU utilization, and mobile performance. While […]

Dating app fraud has evolved from simple fake profiles to sophisticated attacks using deepfakes, AI-generated images, and pre-recorded videos. Romance scams cost victims over $1.3 billion in 2022 alone, with dating platforms facing increasing pressure to verify user authenticity. Traditional photo verification is no longer sufficient — determined fraudsters easily bypass static image checks using […]