Building Connect Now: My Take on Real-Time Video Calling
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A while back I set out to build my own video calling app — Connect Now — mostly because I was curious how apps like Zoom or Google Meet actually manage to send video and audio between two computers with barely any delay. Turns out there's a lot going on under the hood, and building it myself taught me more than any tutorial could have. The problem I was chasing Anyone who's been on a laggy video call knows how annoying it is — audio cutting out, video freezing mid-sentence. On top of that, the