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Episode #82: What Happens When You Stop Trusting Platforms and Start Building Your Own

Stewart Alsop is joined by his guest, Stewart Alsop II, for a wide-ranging conversation about the technology behind modern podcasting and streaming, starting with Riverside’s local recording approach and expanding into WebRTC, live streaming challenges, content delivery networks, and the evolution from Akamai to today’s cloud infrastructure. They discuss how Twitch scaled with custom servers and points of presence, the role of Amazon S3 and AWS in storing and distributing media, and the differences between live streaming and recorded workflows. The discussion then moves into broader themes…

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