Speaker
Abstract
During the pandemic Zoom had to scale massively to support the big move from working in the office every day to meeting online for both business and private use. How did Zoom manage this scaling dilemma? And when you join a Zoom call how does that actually work? Join us as Ian Sleebe will explain the Zoom meetings architecture and how Zoom dealt with the exponential growth of its platform.
Topics
scalability
streaming
case study
architecture
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon London 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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