Product: Resources

Building real-time video is the single hardest infrastructure decision most product teams will face, and the one they're most likely to underestimate. Why? The underlying concept of most real-time video, WebRTC, is well documented and well supported. A basic peer-to-peer video demo can be hacked together in a morning with AI, with nothing more than

We’ve all been there. Our incredibly witty, insightful post being shared worldwide by millions, or our painstakingly created meme being fought over by competing celebrity accounts. What, wait, you haven't found online celebrity success? OK, so you might not have caused the “fail whale” on X back in the day, but we’ve all seen it

“This is a very tough problem.” That’s from the top answer on Stack Overflow for this question. Granted, the answer is over 15 years old, but the sentiment is still true. This is a very tough problem. The problem stems from the fact that audio and video travel through completely separate pipelines in a real-time

Apps need chat. It used to be that just chat apps needed chat, but chat is now commoditized, a table-stakes feature that lets customers get help, ask questions, and work together without leaving your app. The question isn’t whether to add chat, but how. This build-vs-buy decision sits on a spectrum: On one end, a

H.265 has promised 50% smaller files at the same quality since 2013. In practice, the savings depend heavily on resolution, and the codec's messy patent licensing has slowed adoption enough that a royalty-free alternative (AV1) is already eating into its market share. Here's how the two codecs actually compare, and when each one makes sense.

Live selling changes how users discover and evaluate products. Instead of browsing alone, users react, ask questions, and decide in real time while watching a host. That shift creates new expectations around speed, clarity, and control inside the product. For product teams, live selling introduces real-time systems that must work together under pressure. Video has

The nonstop stream of legitimate artificial intelligence breakthroughs mixed with investment-driven marketing hype can make it hard to keep track of what’s actually possible with a given tool or model outside of a demo environment, especially with something as complex as computer vision. If you’re building a product with multimodal or vision AI, you can

If 2024 was the year of text, with LLMs becoming production‑grade reasoning engines, and 2025 the year of the image, with Nano Banana making high‑quality image generation cheap, fast, and ubiquitous, then 2026 will be the year of video. Video is shifting from something you store and play back to something you process in real