💬 Making Nextcloud Talk Highly Available: Why Video Calls Don't Scale Like Web Apps For most web services, "highly available" is a solved problem. Run two replicas behind a load balancer. When one falls over, the other picks up the slack. You write a Helm chart, you
I help run the communications platform for a community organisation spread across Europe. Some members live in Nextcloud Talk. Others won't leave WhatsApp. A third group insists on Signal for privacy reasons. For months, important messages got lost between the three, and nobody wanted to check yet another
I've been putting off writing this post. Not because I don't want to share; I do. But when you sit down to explain how a queer, non-binary kid from small-town Tennessee ended up building a small independent European cloud hosting company from Amsterdam, it's