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Jitsi Meet works out of the box very well for video conferencing. The Jitsi Meet + Jibri bundle allows you to record meetings — and many installations stop there.

But as soon as Jitsi is used not occasionally, but as part of a working process, questions arise very quickly:

• Where should recordings be stored centrally?
• How can links be automatically published for the team?
• How can we get rid of heavy MP4 files and move to streaming playback?
• How can recordings be served over HTTPS without exposing the directory structure?
• How can all of this be done automatically, without manual administrator involvement?

Below is a full production pipeline with code: from Jibri finalizing a recording to publishing in Notion and asynchronous MP4→HLS transcoding with delivery via Caddy.

Introduction

Modern users expect web applications to work as fast and responsive as native software. Chats, stock quotes, collaborative document editing — all these scenarios require instant data exchange. In this article, we’ll break down how Long Polling works, why it was replaced by WebSockets, and how to properly configure these technologies on popular web servers.

The Real-Time Problem and the First Solution: Long Polling

HTTP was originally designed for the request-response model: the client contacts the server, the server replies, and the connection closes. For dynamic applications, this is inconvenient.

Introduction

Choosing a web server and reverse proxy today depends on tasks and infrastructure. Caddy, Traefik, HAProxy, Nginx, and Apache are five popular solutions, each with its strengths and weaknesses.

In this article, we’ll compare them by key criteria: philosophy, installation, SSL, CI/CD, and complexity.

Comparison by Key Criteria

Who Is It For?

🔹 Caddy

Ideal for:

Introduction

In a world where setting up a web server often requires studying complex configuration files, Caddy offers a radically different approach. It is a modern, multifunctional web server, reverse proxy, and certificate authority in one package.

Caddy was created with a single goal: to provide maximum simplicity. If you are tired of the redundancy of Nginx or Apache, then Caddy is what you’re looking for. Its main “killer feature” is fully automatic SSL certificate management, making it an indispensable tool for developers.