All posts by Alan Quayle

Chat with Chris Allen CEO Red5

Chris co-founded the open source Red5 project, where he and his team of volunteers were the first to reverse engineer Adobe’s RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol). With the demise of Flash based streaming he and his team modernized the platform and launched Red5 Pro in 2015 where they focus on providing a platform for real-time latency … Continue reading Chat with Chris Allen CEO Red5

Why has the US PSTN pollution remained so bad? with Alex Quilici, CEO YouMail

Background Apologies for the slight audio quality issue. I made the mistake of maxing the gain on my microphone. Its audible, though a little annoying. I’ll not do that again. We experience it everyday, incoming calls labelled ‘scam likely’, even more annoyingly voicemails left from those scams calls. For some customers, SMS is not as … Continue reading Why has the US PSTN pollution remained so bad? with Alex Quilici, CEO YouMail

Erlang RED

Gerrit Riessen, Experimentalist FlowHub Sam Machin, Principal Engineer Jambonz Viacheslav Katsuba, CEO & Founder at Scalicon. Introduction Gerrit created Erlang RED to experiment with visual Flow Based Programming (FBP) in conjunction with Erlang. FBPs message-passed concurrency is well suited to Erlang, conversely Erlangs Supervisor design pattern is well suited to FBP. Erlang RED is an experimental Erlang backend to … Continue reading Erlang RED

Vance Shipley Interview and Erlang in Telecom Use Cases

Thanks to Slava for arranging this meeting. Vance Shipley is the founder and CEO of Sigscale. Sigscale delivers signaling and distributed fault tolerant systems. They have developed their protocol stacks (SIGTRAN, TCAP, CAP, MAP, NGAP, RADIUS, EAP) in Erlang, allowing them to build microservices with very low footprint and massive scalability. The High School Drop, … Continue reading Vance Shipley Interview and Erlang in Telecom Use Cases

Tsahi’s practical, 3-step guide

Tsahi Levent-Levi is widely recognized for his deep expertise in #WebRTC. He is one of my #WebRTC #heroes, like Philipp Hancke or Justin Uberti  (now OpenAI). His practical, 3-step guide is designed to help teams launch and improve WebRTC applications smoothly and resolve common issues in production. What you’ll find inside: This is an action … Continue reading Tsahi’s practical, 3-step guide

Interview with Freakyclown (Ethical Hacker). How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places.

In How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places, renowned ethical hacker and social engineer FC delivers a gripping and often hilarious discussion of his work: testing the limits of physical bank security by trying to “steal” money, data, and anything else he can get his hands on. In the book, he explores the secretive world … Continue reading Interview with Freakyclown (Ethical Hacker). How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places.

vCon Progress Report

Over the summer I had a number of conversations that included vCon. This is a chance for some of the vCon team to share the latest updates. Mindmaking is really exciting for me, its building the vCon Store, its applications and dashboards; supported by some of the TADHack community. More on that later in this … Continue reading vCon Progress Report

TADSummit online Conference, Why Erlang Matters More Than Ever in 2025, Viacheslav Katsuba

Introduction to the Erlang Session Viacheslav Katsuba, is widely known in the Erlang community as “Ukrainian Erlanger”, active blogger and co-creator of the Hello Erlang podcast, and a contributor to discussions shaping the future of functional programming. He is the Founder & CEO of Scalicon, a US registered software engineering company focused on Erlang/OTP development, DevOps, … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Why Erlang Matters More Than Ever in 2025, Viacheslav Katsuba

TADSummit online Conference, AI in the Middle East, Karim Zaki, Unifonic

Time flies! Preparing for a more Complex Future. It’s been 2 years since we last talked with Karim, This session is long overdue, and shares an open and honest review on the status of programmable communications in the Middle East, with a focus on AI Back in 2023 Karim gave a session on Unifonic’s origin … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, AI in the Middle East, Karim Zaki, Unifonic

TADSummit online Conference, Social Engineering, Matt Holland and Enrico Faccioli

Overview Social Engineering, also known as human hacking, has been a common theme of TADSummit’s cybersecurity sessions in 2025. Social engineering in cyber security refers to the psychological manipulation of individuals to perform actions or divulge confidential information that compromises security.  Instead of exploiting technical vulnerabilities, it relies on human error and trust to gain … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Social Engineering, Matt Holland and Enrico Faccioli