On September 22–23, I was in Chicago for the IIT Real-Time Communications Conference at Illinois Tech, an annual IEEE conference where industry engineers and academic researchers present work on real-time communications. This year’s tracks covered programmable networks, WebRTC applications, emergency communications, and AI in real-time communications. I
A production voice agent has a latency budget of roughly 800 milliseconds before a conversation starts to feel slow. That budget is spent across eight sequential stages, typically split across three to five different vendors depending on how the stack is assembled. This post maps that voice
LiveKit can run on Kubernetes without hostNetwork, which lets self-hosted LiveKit scale like any other workload and run in clusters that don’t allow host networking. Its pods stay private behind an ordinary ClusterIP Service, and STUNner, a Kubernetes-native TURN server, provides the single public address that WebRTC
Once again, WebRTC Live broadcasted direct from the RTC.ON conference in Kraków, Poland where WebRTC.ventures CTO Alberto Gonzalez interviewed two speakers: And one guest: WebRTC Live #117: Live from RTC.ON 2026 Episode highlights below the video. Episode Highlights Pratim Mallick, Staff Software Engineer at Stream Charles Duyk,
