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9 Best Live Selling Platforms Driving Real-Time Commerce

Live selling platforms help lower barriers to visibility because brands and retailers can share their products without needing prime shelf space to get attention. Customers can ask questions and decide immediately on what to purchase instead of going through static images. This is why the global live commerce market size is projected to reach roughly

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What Is Voice Activity Detection?

Voice activity detection tells a voice agent when someone is actually speaking. Here is how VAD works, why it drives turn-taking and interruptions, and where Silero VAD fits in a real-time pipeline.

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How Do You Introduce Feed Ranking Without Increasing Latency?

You introduce feed ranking without increasing latency by moving scoring to write time, putting a cheap retrieval stage in front of your ranking model, and fetching features in parallel rather than in series.

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How Do Video Platforms Maintain Low Latency in Large Group Calls?

Large group video calls stay under a few hundred milliseconds by moving the work onto the server. Here's how SFUs, WebRTC, and simulcast keep latency low.

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How Do I Sync Chat State After a User Was Offline?

Syncing chat state after a user goes offline means pulling a delta from the server first, applying it atomically, then replaying queued local writes - with each type of state handled according to its own durability and merge rules.

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How Do I Choose Between Different Chat API Providers for a Chatbot?

Picking a chat infrastructure provider sounds like a feature comparison, but it's mostly a question of fit. Pricing, SDK depth, and AI capabilities matter, but they are downstream of the higher-order questions about what you're building and what trade-offs you can tolerate. Should I Build Chat In-House or Use a Provider? Building chat from scratch

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Instagram Feed Features Explained: How to Build Social Engagement Loops

Open Instagram and you're immediately dropped into motion. The news feed is already populated. Stories are queued at the top. Within seconds, the app has a read on what you're likely to engage with. That read comes from signals (watch time, shares, saves, replies, viewing patterns) that update ranking systems and shape what's

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Live Streaming Statistics & Trends (2026): What Product Teams Need to Know

The latest live streaming research shows the market hitting $221.17 billion by 2031.. But at the platform level, the data tells a more nuanced story. In Q1 2026, YouTube and TikTok both saw live content consumption drop, with TikTok Live viewership down more than 11%. At the same time, Twitch and Kick edged up in

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