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Discord built proprietary WebRTC streaming and serverless networking infrastructure

Anjani Mitra · How Discord Became a Developer Platform · Jun 23, 2024 · at 21:12

Anjney Midha is a General Partner at a16z and former product leader at Discord, reflecting on Discord's internal infrastructure architecture.

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“The company had built its own WebRTC streaming service had built its own voice and video infra its own real-time comms infra. We built a bunch of serverless networking”

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