mboehm
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Comment · 5 months ago
I would try Myra. They are based in Munich.
Comment · 3 years ago
Which country/provider is that?
Comment · 4 years ago
When did you use 1Password for the last time? Not a big fan by myself, but the points you are mentioning are fully available
Comment · 4 years ago
What images do you use? I would love to hear about your setup to debug lambda functions.
Comment · 4 years ago
You might want to look into OVH's k8s offering [1]. You only pay the worker nodes and the general purpose instances cost 26,18 € per month offering 2vcpu and 7 gb RAM [2].
Comment · 6 years ago
We started our journey with Janus about three months ago and I can just fully recommend it. It is an amazing well-written piece of software which is just as flexible and integrative as developers wish. E.g. Slack used Janus, at least in 2016 [0]. It is important to understand: Janus offers the ingredients for building great WebRTC applications (examples [1]), whereas Jitsi is more like a ready-to-go solution and got much more attentation as Janus did.
Lorenzo and his colleagues are doing a really great job.
In the space of SFU/MFU, one really needs to decide beforehand what kind of solution is suitable for which requirement. I have chosen Janus because we could integrate it by 100% in our software. For example, I was also looking into Jitsi. But compared to Janus it feeled so much more complicated and not suited for that specific job.
However, it is important to point out, that this is no a ready-to-go solution. There is a long list of things you will have to dig into:
- ICE (a way to connect if you switch between WIFI and LAN or to punch a hole into your fw) [2]
- Cross-browser compatibility (Thank you iOS [4])
- TURN/STUN (Which matrix of udp/tcp and ports is needed for Hole Punching?), I recommend coturn.
- Scalability: How many clients are planned? In my experience, CPU and bandwith are bottlenecks, we went with horizontal scaling
- How do you gonna test your WebRTC application? So far great results with https://testrtc.com, but you probably also could accomplish a lot with Selenium.
- Simulcast/Bitrate or Unified Plan (Use available bandwith and adapt on-the-fly) [3][5]
But once you got it running, it is an amazing feeling. We are in 2020 and it is possible for an SMB to offer video conferencing to customers via a web-browser using your own infrastructure while being compliant to GPDR and other stuff.
[0] https://webrtchacks.com/slack-webrtc-slacking/
[1] https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/demos.html
[2] https://webrtcglossary.com/ice/
[3] https://webrtcbydralex.com/index.php/2018/03/14/extending-ja...
[4] https://webrtchacks.com/guide-to-safari-webrtc/
[5] https://www.callstats.io/blog/what-is-unified-plan-and-how-w...
Comment · 6 years ago
Out of curiousity: What is an edge device? An IP camera?
Depending on the professional grade of your use case, you could directly talk to meetecho, as they are the original developers and offer consultancy around Janus.
Comment · 6 years ago
Answering for myself, not for bbeausej. We are currently using coturn. It is quite easy to setup, you have to dig a little into the configuration parameter and that's it - I would recommend it.
Oh well, you probably should use the rest api for generating credentials on the fly and think about scaling (depending on your needs).
Comment · 6 years ago
There is an actively maintained fork of iText: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
From their background section: It is a fork of iText version 4, more specifically iText svn tag 4.2.0, which was hosted publicly on sourceforge with LGPL and MPL license headers in the source code, and lgpl and mpl license documents in the svn repository. Beginning with version 5.0 of iText, the developers have moved to the AGPL to improve their ability to sell commercial licenses.
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess because they do not have a common memex yet. :-)
But yes, RDF should fit very well.
As others pointed out already, I also dislike the idea of being locked into a proprietary file format. This should not be a problem using RDF - I guess we all should think about that idea.
Comment · 7 years ago
Well, scaling a filesystem does not really sound easy to me. Scaling a dbms is rather common, I guess.
I rather question, why do they store their binaries in mongodb? imho, s3 would be the perfect fit for that requirement.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think, the price is incredible. Hetzner does have even more insane prices, they charge 300 € for 150 TB (yes, 150 TB! [1])
I mean, it's just a plain server. No "cloudish" stuff, but I see people too often using expensive storages without really needing it...