OpenVidu 3.7.0 is now available!
• OCI native deployments
• Scale-in for DigitalOcean
• Stack upgrades in LiveKit, mediasoup and MinIO with many bug fixes, CVEs fixes and improvements
• S3 Server-Side Encryption
• Automatic chain version upgrades
https://t.co/78SGmN6mx7
7/ Scale by design, not by accident
Don't wait for an incident to fix your architecture
At @OpenVidu, we’ve battle-tested this roadmap so you don't have to build it from scratch—get HA on AWS, GCP, Azure, DO, and OCI.
Read the full deep dive here 👉 https://t.co/v0ZjeRiDZy
🧵 The Architecture of Scale: Video Conferencing Edition
Launch week is great until a customer schedules a company-wide call
Hundreds join
CPU spikes, bandwidth saturates, and video freezes
Why did it fail?
Real-time media scales very differently from traditional web apps👇
6/ Phase 3: High Availability (The Control Plane) 🛡️
100 media nodes won't save you if your orchestrator is a single point of failure
You need:
🎛️ Replicated signaling & control clusters
🗄️ Data stores with auto-failover
⚖️ Quorum rules (N/2+1) to prevent split-brain states
🧵 THREAD: Scaling up is easy. The real nightmare in WebRTC is scaling down 📉
Cloud autoscaling promises zero-waste elasticity. Need servers? Spin them up✅
But for video conferencing, "turning it off" can instantly murder dozens of live user calls mid-sentence 😡
Why?👇
7/
🔹DigitalOcean: Since DO lacks native auto-scaling groups, OpenVidu uses DO Functions as an external control plane to monitor load, flag droplets, and securely drain traffic.
7/ 📊 Quick Comparison:
⚡Lowest time to first call: Stream / OpenVidu Meet
⛓️Highest UI Freedom: Agora / LiveKit
💻Minimum backend effort: OpenVidu Meet
Check out the full comparison and code snippets on our blog
👉 https://t.co/CTntvw3LAI
#ReactJS#WebRTC#SaaS
🧵5 React video call platforms in 2026: Is SaaS still the right choice? 💸
💡False Assumption: SaaS = Fast, Self-Hosted = Complex
In 2026 self-hosted solutions can be deployed in minutes
Real choice is financial and operational
5 platforms React devs are evaluating in 2026👇
6/ 5️⃣ OpenVidu Meet 🚀
Open-source, embed-first platform built on top of LiveKit.
💪 Strengths: Super fast integration via a Web Component, deployable on any cloud, highly predictable core-based pricing
⚠️ Trade-offs: Self-hosting brings more operational management