The speed of light is a constant, right? You can't exceed that. And even that, yeah, it's like 80% of that you get like in real terms. So for that, the bandwidth costs are significant and I think they are by far the highest ratio from the cost per minute of actually doing this,. It's not the CPUs, it's not the memory. There's no storage involved because everything is real time. Mm-hmm. Ideally. Yeah. Well, plus obviously anything that the protocol users, you know, like that’s another 200 milliseconds, but the speed of Light is a constant; you can't exceedThat. Even that, yeah
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Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex.dev runs.
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