Video API Webhooks: Verify Every Request, Then Expect Duplicates
A practical guide to video API webhooks: HMAC signature verification on the raw body, idempotent handlers for participant events, and reconciling late leaves.
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Engineering insights, tutorials, and updates from the media plane infrastructure team.
Building a Telehealth Waiting Room: Withhold the Token, Not Just the Video
How to build a telehealth waiting room for WebRTC video visits: hold back join tokens until a clinician admits the patient, poll for status, and expire links.
Read Article →WebRTC Screen Sharing: Keeping Text Sharp When Bandwidth Runs Out
Why WebRTC screen sharing turns blurry in group calls, and how contentHint, a single high-bitrate layer, and pausing SFU consumers keep shared text readable.
Read Article →TURN Server Credentials for WebRTC: Mint Them Per Session, Not Per App
How ephemeral TURN server credentials work in WebRTC: the HMAC username scheme, coturn's static-auth-secret, TTL trade-offs, and testing relay-only paths.
Read Article →Why self-view should be opt-in, not on by default
Examining Stanford research on mirror anxiety and video call fatigue, and why self-view should be visible only if someone chooses to turn it on.
Read Article →Your LLM isn't hallucinating. Your audio pipeline is dropping packets.
Why voice AI summary errors are often packet loss and voice activity detection bugs in the audio path, not model hallucinations.
Read Article →Simplifying WebRTC SFU Orchestration with CoveKit
An in-depth look at how Selective Forwarding Units (SFUs) work, and how CoveKit simplifies the complex orchestration of publishing and consuming media tracks.
Read Article →Introducing CoveKit: The Stark Media Plane Infrastructure
Meet CoveKit, a developer-first platform designed to orchestrate video meetings, manage media servers, and scale real-time audio and video communications.
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