[Talk] Making internet radio with a series of tubes

[nlaz]

Chinatown.js Talk Submission

Talk Title: Making internet radio with a series of tubes

Talk Description: My understanding of building internet applications has always been pretty simple; send a request to a server and get a response back. But I saw something recently that shook my world. What if the response never ends?

I'll use this talk to peek behind the curtains of chunked transfer encoding, piping streams of data to the browser, and some other ways of handling data streams. For example, a demo of live mixing a radio voice into a music track to be streamed to the browser.

I'll also share my experience building a media server for Evenings, an internet radio service, and the interesting ways we use these mechanisms. Like how you can run a live internet radio station in your browser using only basic HTML elements.

Name: Niko Lazaris

Pronouns: he/him

Twitter Handle (optional): @eveningsgroup

Website (optional): evenings.fm

[nlaz]

Here are some supporting repositories if you're curious:

• https://github.com/nlaz/mini-node-radio
• https://github.com/nlaz/sidechain-on-the-fly-demo

[NickEngmann]

As an impartial onlooker, this looks dope