Engineer for the future of Cloud
June 10-13, 2019
San Jose, CA

Build HQ Trivia (better than HQ)

1:25pm2:05pm Thursday, June 13, 2019
Emerging Tech
Location: LL21 E/F
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)

Level

Intermediate

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A general understanding of networking for the web

What you'll learn

  • Discover approaches that can help solve the issues presented by WebRTC and HTTP livestreaming using existing techologies

Description

A lot of app developers right now are taking cues from HQ Trivia and adding the ability for viewers to interact with livestreamers in relative real time through chat, answering questions, betting, bidding, and more. They are all currently running into the same challenge of bringing the latency of live-streaming video down while syncing up interactions between the livestreamer and thousands of viewers.

There’s currently a race between WebRTC-based approaches, which are very low in latency but hard to scale, and HTTP-based approaches, which are easy to scale but higher in latency. Neither are great. Steve Heffernan details available approaches as well as the standards-based approaches that will soon help solve the issue using technologies that are already available to us.

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Steve Heffernan

Mux

Steve Heffernan is the creator of Video.js, an open source web video player in use on over 1 million websites and with over 1 billion videos played per month. He’s currently leading product at Mux, building video performance monitoring and APIs for video streaming. Steve has been helping run the SF Video Tech Meetup and the Demuxed video engineering conference for the last five years.

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Steve Heffernan | COFOUNDER AND HEAD OF PRODUCT
02/25/2019 9:52am PST

Hey all, I’m looking forward to giving this talk! Leave a comment if there’s specific details you’d like me to touch on.