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Russ d'Sa is Founder of LiveKit, the real-time streaming audio, video, and data infrastructure platform for developers. Their open source project, also called livekit, provides the end-to-end stack for WebRTC and has over 6K stars on GitHub.
In this episode, we dig into LiveKit's unique founding story with the idea coming from the founders' experience building a Clubhouse competitor and using Agora, early interest from companies like Pinterest that gave indications that there was a need for an open source alternative to Agora and Twilio, why Conversational AI will be a big driver for LiveKit & more!
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1 E171: How Companies Like Block Build Viral Open Source Projects 40:08
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1 E170: From Idea to Working Web App Using Only Python with Reflex 39:19
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1 E169: Building New Standards for Observability - Lightstep & OpenTelemetry 38:31
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1 E168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB 39:36
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1 E167: Taking on Network Security with a Zero Trust Approach with NetBird 34:50
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1 E166: Making Open Source Reliable & Secure with Fossa 40:06
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