Next.js · Mediasoup · WebRTC2026 · Ongoing · Product Engineer — realtime, fullstack, architecture

Axis Meet

Enterprise-grade video conferencing — HD meetings, screen sharing, recording, and an AI assistant in a Turborepo platform.

Overview

The product

Axis Meet is an enterprise-grade video conferencing platform comparable to Google Meet, built as a TypeScript Turborepo: a Next.js 14 frontend and an Express API backed by a Mediasoup SFU for WebRTC media, Socket.IO for realtime signaling, PostgreSQL with Prisma for data, Redis for cross-instance events, and S3-compatible storage for recordings and avatars. Meetings get HD video and audio with adaptive bitrate, screen sharing, realtime chat, host controls with waiting rooms and breakout rooms, cloud recording, and an AI assistant that produces summaries, transcripts, and action items — all behind JWT, OAuth, 2FA, and role-based access.

Mediasoup SFU

Media

Socket.IO + Redis

Realtime

JWT + OAuth + 2FA

Auth

Docker + K8s ready

Deploy

The problem

Meetings deserve better than good-enough video

Teams settle for conferencing tools that treat reliability, security, and intelligence as premium add-ons. Self-hosting a real alternative means solving media routing at scale, keeping signaling consistent across instances, and meeting enterprise auth requirements — all at once.

  • Media doesn't scale by default — peer-to-peer breaks past a handful of participants
  • Signaling fragments across instances without a shared event bus
  • Enterprise auth (SSO, 2FA, RBAC, audit logs) is a checklist most clones skip

The solution

A Meet-class platform, engineered as a monorepo

I built Axis Meet as a Turborepo with shared ui, hooks, types, and SDK packages so web and API evolve against one contract. A Mediasoup SFU routes media with selective forwarding while Socket.IO over Redis pub/sub keeps signaling consistent across horizontally scaled API servers. Auth layers JWT with Google/GitHub OAuth, TOTP-based 2FA, and RBAC with rate limiting and audit logs. An AI assistant turns recorded meetings into transcripts, summaries, and action items, and a versioned REST API with OpenAPI docs makes the whole platform programmable.

  • Mediasoup SFU with selective forwarding for multiparty HD media
  • Shared packages plus a versioned API keep web, SDK, and server on one contract
  • Enterprise security — JWT, OAuth, 2FA, RBAC, rate limits, and audit logs

Architecture

The system behind Axis Meet

A realtime pipeline — signal, route media, persist, summarize — with shared packages keeping every layer on the same types.

  1. 01

    Web Client

    Next.js 14 · React 18

    Meeting rooms, chat, screen share, and recording playback in a shadcn UI.

  2. 02

    API Server

    Express · Socket.IO

    Versioned REST (/api/v1) plus realtime signaling, with OpenAPI at /api/docs.

  3. 03

    Media SFU

    Mediasoup · WebRTC

    Selective forwarding, adaptive bitrate, and STUN/TURN traversal.

  4. 04

    Realtime Bus

    Redis Pub/Sub

    Cross-instance Socket.IO events for horizontal scaling.

  5. 05

    Data

    PostgreSQL · Prisma

    Meetings, users, sessions, and recordings with typed access.

  6. 06

    Storage & Infra

    S3 · Docker · Nginx

    Recordings and avatars on S3-compatible storage, containerized behind Nginx.

Tech stack

Tools that earned their place

Frontend

  • Next.js 14
  • React 18
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS

Realtime

  • Mediasoup
  • Socket.IO
  • WebRTC

Backend

  • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • Redis

Auth

  • JWT
  • OAuth 2.0
  • 2FA
  • RBAC

Infra

  • Docker
  • Nginx
  • GitHub Actions

Features

What it does, and why it matters

01

HD video & audio

Adaptive bitrate with noise suppression and echo cancellation.

02

Screen sharing

Full screen, window, or browser tab — shared in one click.

03

Realtime chat

Messages, emoji, file sharing, and mentions inside the meeting.

04

Meeting controls

Host controls, waiting room, breakout rooms, and raise-hand.

05

Cloud recording

Record to S3-compatible storage with playback and sharing.

06

AI assistant

Transcripts, summaries, action items, and smart search on every recorded meeting.

Challenges

What nearly broke the system

Multiparty media that scales

Peer-to-peer media collapses in group calls. A Mediasoup SFU with selective forwarding routes each publisher's stream once, and Redis pub/sub carries signaling across stateless API instances behind Nginx — so workers scale across cores and servers, not just connections.

Enterprise auth without enterprise pain

JWT alone isn't enough for serious orgs. Layering Google/GitHub OAuth, TOTP 2FA with QR enrollment, RBAC on every route, rate limiting, and audit logs turned auth from a login form into a verifiable security story.

One contract across the monorepo

Web, API, and SDK drift apart fast. Shared types, validators, and constants packages plus a versioned /api/v1 surface with OpenAPI docs mean a breaking change fails at build time, not in a live meeting.

Lessons learned

What shipping taught me

Realtime is a scaling problem first: stateless servers plus a shared event bus before any feature work.

Security compounds — JWT, OAuth, 2FA, and RBAC each close a different door, and audit logs prove it.

Monorepos pay off when the contract is shared: one types package beats three matching interfaces.

Impact

Why this actually matters

Axis Meet proves an independent team can ship conferencing at Google Meet's bar — HD multiparty media on an SFU, consistent signaling at scale, enterprise auth, and AI meeting intelligence, all deployable on your own infrastructure.

  • Multiparty HD that holds up — SFU routing with adaptive bitrate
  • Enterprise-ready security — OAuth, 2FA, RBAC, and audit trails
  • Meetings that remember — recording plus AI summaries and action items

Gallery

Inside the product

Meeting room

HD multiparty video with screen share and chat.

Host controls

Waiting rooms, breakouts, and recording from one bar.

AI recap

Transcripts, summaries, and action items after every call.