October 19, 2022

How vex.dev runs on AWS, Fly.io & GCP (Ship It! #75)

1 hour 11 minutes

Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex.dev runs.

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Jason Carter – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

vex.dev - Stream your meeting, or your moon landing 💥 Demo

WebRTC

HLS - HTTP Live Streaming

Typescript SDK for working with the Vex API

🎬 When to Choose Rust for Your Cloud Native App - Tim McNamara - #swisscnd 2022

Postgres WASM

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