KAZOO the VOIP cloud platform: A retrospective

KAZOO has, over the last 10 years, grown to almost 300K lines of Erlang, plus C-node code in the FreeSWITCH and custom code in the Kamailio project.

We'll talk about:

  • Growing the open-source community
  • Erlang in anger
  • Operational lessons learned
  • Tooling to support developers, community
  • Making major architectural changes
  • Building closed-source applications on top of an open-source base

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Learning

By

Doing

OBJECTIVES

The objective is to share war stories, failures and how we grew from them, engaging a growing community, making money from open source, and just talk about what it has been like working on a long-lived open source project in Erlang.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Most folks will get something out of it.