When Sam Altman called GPT‑5 “a PhD in every discipline in your pocket,” it captured the awe surrounding modern large language models. As builders, we should be thrilled. This is an extraordinary leap in what’s technically possible. But here’s my unpopular opinion: just because we can use
Digital media delivery today relies on two powerful but separate approaches: scalable streaming and real-time conversation. Each one excels at a specific purpose, and understanding both reveals why MOQ represents a fundamental shift in how we may be building these applications in the future. Let’s explore what
Earlier this week, I had the privilege to travel back to my alma mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, to speak at and attend the IEEE RTC Conference & Expo 2025, which covered WebRTC, Mobility, VoIP, and Next Generation 911. This annual event continues to
WebRTC’s code may be open source and royalty-free, but deploying a reliable, production-grade real-time communications application involves both up-front development investment (engineering, integration, and setup) and ongoing operational spending (infrastructure, bandwidth, monitoring, and scaling). Teams who overlook either side risk major surprises as their product grows. So
