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The Seam: Abstracting Video Behind Your Own Interface So You Can Leave Later

The Seam: Abstracting Video Behind Your Own Interface So You Can Leave Later

Two posts on this blog give the same advice in one sentence: wrap the video SDK so join, publish and record are your verbs, not the vendor's. Neither shows how. This one does: the four sides of the seam, an interface sketch, what to let through, and what the layer costs you.

The Switching Cost: What You Actually Rewrite to Move Video Providers

The Switching Cost: What You Actually Rewrite to Move Video Providers

When Dyte became Cloudflare RealtimeKit, its customers did not switch providers, and every package, class and HTML tag in their code still changed. Using three vendor-written migration guides, here is what moving video providers actually rewrites, one layer at a time