Engineering posts, product updates, and technical guides.
Building a meeting bot from scratch means Playwright automation, WebRTC audio capture, Deepgram WebSocket management, VM orchestration, self-deleting infrastructure, and six months of your life. Or you pay Recall.ai and hope they don't change the pricing.
Every cold start pulled the Docker image. 1m43s just for that. We fixed it with warm machine images, zone fallback, and pre-initialized browser instances. Here's the full engineering breakdown.
Most meeting tools are monoliths. Every feature is always on, even if you don't want it. Our approach: core handles bots + audio. Everything else is a plugin.
Deepgram sends segments one at a time. If you forward each one as an HTTP request, you'll drown your API. Here's how we batch, deduplicate, and deliver at scale.
We acknowledge where Recall is strong. This isn't a hit piece. It's a fair look at what each product does well and when you should use each.
Connect Google Calendar, set rules, forget about it. Here's how the auto-join logic works and the edge cases that tripped us up.
Set up a Slack app with incoming webhooks. Configure Serveka webhook for bot.completed. Post summaries to Slack automatically. Full code walkthrough.