Real-time media
Design live audio, video, and data paths around latency budgets, network conditions, device diversity, and the user experience under stress.
Consensus Codeworks · Real-Time Systems
Built for the moment everyone is connected.
We engineer live media, multiplayer, and shared-state platforms where latency, synchronization, capacity, and recovery directly shape the product experience.
WebRTC and streaming Multiplayer state Low-latency backends Live operations
Capabilities
Real-time means the system is part of the experience.
Live platforms must behave well when networks vary, participants spike, clients reconnect, and services fail. We design those conditions into the system instead of treating them as edge cases.
Multiplayer architecture
Build authoritative services, matchmaking, sessions, shared state, presence, and event flows for interactive applications and games.
Scale and resilience
Plan regional topology, capacity, backpressure, graceful degradation, and recovery so live experiences remain predictable as traffic changes.
Live operations
Instrument the system for quality, latency, session health, incidents, and release safety with signals teams can act on quickly.
Engineering path
Start with interaction, then design the networked system.
The right architecture depends on what participants must perceive, what must stay consistent, and how the experience should degrade.
- Model
Define the live interaction
We map participants, media and state flows, consistency needs, latency targets, network assumptions, and failure behavior.
- Architect
Choose a topology that fits the experience
Protocol, client, server, regional, persistence, and integration choices follow the interaction model and operating constraints.
- Engineer
Build the critical path with observability
We implement or strengthen the services that shape responsiveness, synchronization, media quality, and session reliability.
- Prove
Test behavior before the audience does
Load, network impairment, reconnect, failover, and release testing expose operational limits and recovery behavior early.
Where we help
Products whose value depends on being live.
- Interactive video and audio products
- Multiplayer games and shared virtual spaces
- Virtual events and audience participation
- Collaboration, presence, and synchronized applications
Make the critical path visible
