The Deep Collaboration Podcast

Mass-scaling video chat infrastructure with Emil from Jitsi & 8X8

Episode Summary

Jason Thomas, Co-founder and CTO of CoScreen, and Emil Ivov, founder of Jitsi (acquired by Atlassian) and head of product at 8x8 are talking about scaling video infrastructure, open-source, and the future of meeting solutions.

Episode Notes

In this episode, we are chatting with Emil Ivov from jitsi, a free open-source video conferencing software for web & mobile.

• 02:20 → How Jitsi maintained open-source identity after the Atlassian acquisition.
• 06:30 → How to make open source survive an acquisition.
• 17:00 → The world isn't lacking generic meeting solutions - "how do I waste less time over meetings."
• 19:30 → The commoditization of conferencing
• 20:00 → What made Zoom the leader in the conferencing space? "Zoom's strength is being a generic tool which is also their greatest weakness"
• 23:30 → How CoScreen is giving the natural background connection remotely.
• 25:50 → Jitsi's background infrastructure
• 30:45 → Zoom's end-2-end encryption and its importance in chat infrastructure
• 42:00 → Mass scaling Jitsi during a pandemic
• 46:30 → How CoScreen is using Jitsi
• 50:00 → Vp9 support and WebRTC application