Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
Hi all -- Salsify co-author here. Surprised to see us here again, but happy to be part of the conversation (here's a previous one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964112).This work was led by my student Sadjad Fouladi. If you liked Salsify, you might really like Sadjad's talk in June at USENIX ATC about "gg", his system for letting people use AWS Lambda as a rented supercomputer (e.g. he can compile inkscape and Chromium really fast by outsourcing the computation to 8,000 Lambda nodes that all talk to each other directly over UDP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc_MVldSijA (code here: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg)You might also be interested in our current video project, led by my student Francis Yan, on trying to improve live video streaming. If you visit and watch some live TV you can help contribute to our study: https://puffer.stanford.edu