"the best of those, Zoom, is doing very well"
Is Zoom really the best? No other comparable platform out there?
Anyone know how difficult it would be to build something like it on top of aws or a similar cloud?
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Is Zoom really the best? No other comparable platform out there?
Anyone know how difficult it would be to build something like it on top of aws or a similar cloud?
In terms of actual reliable video/audio experience. When evaluating platforms, other videoconferencing solutions simply suffered quality issues more -- taking longer to start, glitches, latency, pausing, echo, and so on.
Also, the hard part isn't building 1-1 video chat. It's having it work with 20 or 200 separate participants.
I have no idea why they're better except that building reliable audio-video at scale turns out to be a really hard problem, and they seemed to focus their engineering on that specifically.
Kind of like file sync was really unreliable until Dropbox decided to focus on building a sync tool that actually "just worked". Same philosophy. Zoom is the Dropbox of videoconferencing.