Buildly - MediaMash

Buildly has a conferencing platform with live-streaming support.

Overview

Buildly stands for “Build Quickly!” The platform is tailored to meet present and future requirements, emphasizing containerized solutions in the open-source domain. With collaborations spanning diverse verticals, Buildly delivers high-quality open-source products, challenging proprietary systems.

The Buildly Foundry, a collection of open-source tools, marketplace services, and process frameworks, aids startups and enterprise teams in launching, developing, migrating, and maintaining applications in cloud-native architectures. Ajackus and Buildly’s initial collaboration on the MediaMash project showcased the development of a conferencing and live-streaming platform. A fully operational MediaMash platform was built in just 5.5 months, accommodating 100 guests per event and supporting various operating systems and browsers. The success of MediaMash led to a subsequent collaboration with VinoShares, underscoring Ajackus’ capability to provide reliable and seamless solutions.

Problem

Adapting to Remote Operations in a Pandemic Era

As the world grappled with the COVID-19 outbreak, 34% of businesses turned to the internet and social media for remote operations. However, the lack of a suitable virtual gathering platform became evident, prompting Buildly’s collaboration with MediaMash.

Containerized Solutions for Digital Conferencing

Buildly, known for creating containerized solutions, faced the challenge of adapting MediaMash to this framework. Creating a web conferencing and live streaming platform as a containerized cloud app running on an open-source WebRTC server posed significant technical hurdles.

Accelerating Global Business Processes

The urgency to build a system swiftly to facilitate global business processes became imperative. Despite the widespread use of video calling software, approximately 78% of corporate companies lacked the capability to host and control major conferences in virtual rooms and live stream them effectively.

Solution

Seamless Integration for Web Conferencing

Ajackus achieved a groundbreaking integration by marrying Janus, an open-source WebRTC server, with Kubernetes, providing the foundation for a containerized app for web conferencing with live streaming support.

Cloud-Ready Solutions with Microservices

Utilizing microservices and Kubernetes, our team crafted cloud-ready and containerized solutions for MediaMash, ensuring scalability and efficiency. The addition of infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm facilitated easy duplication of various environments.

Niche Digital Conferencing Platform

Ajackus developed a specialized digital conferencing platform, empowering hosts to manage online conference halls, control meeting environments, display advertisements, and live-stream events globally. The platform supports diverse data sources, edge devices, smartphones, and accommodates 125 concurrent playback sessions.

Scalable Solutions for Buildly’s Diverse Cloud Platforms

Addressing the need for scalability, Ajackus created containerized solutions with a versatile architecture, ensuring easy deployment on multiple cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. This solution, supported by Janus and Kubernetes, pioneered a robust web conferencing experience with integrated live streaming.

Results

Team Ajackus delivered transformative results through pioneering solutions. We integrated Janus and Kubernetes for smooth web conferencing with live streaming. Our cloud-ready solutions for MediaMash are super flexible, and using Terraform and Helm makes copying environments a breeze. We also built a special digital conferencing platform that lets hosts worldwide control online events, show ads, and stream to 125 sessions at once.

In a short period of time, we successfully provided a best-in-class containerized solution for virtual conferencing powered by live streaming. The delivery was critically acclaimed, well received by the market, and resulted in a new collaboration with VinoShares, one more client of Buildly.