WebRTC Live #72: End-to-End WebRTC with LiveKit

LiveKit is an open source, end-to-end stack for WebRTC. Launched just 15 months ago, its progress has been accelerated by excitement among WebRTC developers and the open source community.

David Zhao, CTO and Co-Founder of LiveKit, joined us to talk about LiveKit’s place in the WebRTC ecosystem. He laid out a case for why an end-to-end approach to WebRTC is needed in order to make it more accessible to developers. He also explained how LiveKit aims to match Zoom’s efficiency for multi-party video conferencing using techniques such as adaptive stream and dynamic broadcast.

David Zhao is an entrepreneur and builder heavily invested in open source software. Before LiveKit, he’s founded two technology startups (ZumoDrive and Evie Labs) and lead engineering teams at Medium, Motorola, and Amazon.