Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk

SIP From Twilio is all we have to report right now.

I think the part that made me scratch my head was the line where Jon said "It was so satisfying to make a physical phone ring!" which is funny when you take it out of context for a multitude of reasons. I hope you appreciated my quip about time travel ;).

Having the logic separate from the delivery may make sense for some applications and might not for others. We wrestle with clients all the time that want various elements of the platform either directly under their control or as far away as humanly possible. There's usually little rhyme or reason to understanding which components are supposed to go where or for what reason, but that's Telecom in a nutshell. When dealing with large carriers, the question of what goes in the firewall, and what stays out, is a complete mystery until right before you ink the contract.

To be fair, your point about siloed telephony and business software does ring a tad hollow when you talk about Twilio which is essentially a silo for business logic of a different color, right?

Once again, I do really enjoy these chats :D. I also admire the hard work your team does writing these blogs which I point to as a great example of developer evangelism. Your team does a great job of getting out there and showing off the tech. I especially like the edge case stuff, like jamming Asterisk onto a Raspberry pi and connecting it to an obihai ;).