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Still honing our chops—and handling load before it hits
Nov 12, 2025

Still honing our chops—and handling load before it hits

Scalability is non-negotiable, so we did the hard work to distribute load across nodes proactively, not after things fall over. We split the cluster by roles—Signaling, Media, Recorder, Dispatcher—and switched persistent storage to S3.

Alex posted the very first message—“test”—in the dev channel.
Sep 9, 2024

Alex posted the very first message—“test”—in the dev channel.

The road to the new UI took a bit longer than we planned, but it was worth it. It no longer feels like Zoom; it’s closer to Discord or Slack.

Mike announced we were ready to start using Zapp for team calls.
Jan 16, 2023

Mike announced we were ready to start using Zapp for team calls.

Before releasing the product to users, we decided to dogfood it—run our regular daily stand-ups on it. What we saw, we didn’t like.