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Open Source doesn’t have an instant scalability offering yet. I hope someone takes it on! Quite a few companies offer this a service though. Cloudflare, Twitch
by Sean-Der 2y ago
Open Source doesn’t have an instant scalability offering yet. I hope someone takes it on!
Quite a few companies offer this a service though. Cloudflare, Twitch’s IVS, Dolby Millicast, Phenix RTS…
LiveKit did a write up on how they built theirs https://blog.livekit.io/scaling-webrtc-with-distributed-mesh/ https://blog.livekit.io/scaling-webrtc-with-distributed-mesh...
- mannyv 2y agoInteresting that "but a particular session can only be hosted by one instance" Why is that? Is that a protocol issue with WebRTC or an implementation issue with the way WebRTC servers are written? There are lots of ways to share session state across servers.
- Sean-Der 2y agoTo build this quickly I would chain Broadcast Box instances. Have it look like a n-ary tree and spin up another broadcast box instance when you need it. `OBS -> Broadcast Box -> Broadcast Box -> Broadcast Box -> Viewer` To start I would do WHIP between the servers as well. More optimization can be done, but it would be a good quick start.