2 posts tagged with "bigbluebutton"

If you're in the world of open-source education or communication, you owe a debt of gratitude to BigBlueButton. It was a pioneering platform that showed the world what was possible. However, as the web has evolved, the demands for scalability, developer experience, and cost-effective performance have grown exponentially.

Many long-time BigBlueButton users are now looking for a next-generation solution, one designed from the ground up to meet the new demands for scalability and flexibility that the modern web requires. This is where Plug-N-Meet comes in.

This article provides a direct, head-to-head comparison to help you understand the key differences in philosophy and technology, so you can make an informed decision about which platform is right for you.

For years, our company has been a well-known provider of BigBlueButton hosting and support services. We've deployed, managed, and scaled it for countless clients, and we have a deep respect for the role it has played in the open-source education community. It paved the way.

But after years in the trenches, supporting live sessions, online classes, and events at scale, we found ourselves running into the same fundamental walls. We weren't just using the software; we were experiencing its architectural limits firsthand. The frustration wasn't just about bugs; it was about an architecture that, while powerful for its original purpose, presented challenges for the kind of elastic scalability and developer agility that modern web applications demand.

We realized we had a choice: continue building workarounds, or take everything we had learned and build the solution we knew our users needed.

We chose to build. This is the story of why Plug-N-Meet exists.