The Importance of DevOps in Live Video Applications
DevOps is essential to the culture, practices, and technology of our work at WebRTC.ventures. Similar to testing, DevOps is a set of practices that our clients don’t always realize they need when they contact us, but it’s a crucial part of building their live video application. Our team holds regular internal meetings where we update each other on company strategy as well as share knowledge. One of our DevOps leads, Hector Zelaya, recently gave a
Watch WebRTC Live #57 – How To Successfully Scale Your WebRTC in 2021
On the July 14, 2021 episode of WebRTC Live, we welcomed another new face to WebRTC Live. Anton Venema, CTO at LiveSwitch Inc (formerly Frozen Mountain Software) joined Arin Sime for a deep dive into the topic of scalability. With the drastic increase in live video that has come with the pandemic, scaling is a very important topic for so many members in the WebRTC community. Anton gave us some background on how his company
The Software Testing Life Cycle
Presenting a flawless live video application or integration to our clients is the ultimate goal of our work here at WebRTC.ventures. Testing is an integral part of that software development life cycle. The experience of our dedicated QA testing team located in our Panama City, Panama office allows us to implement efficient and expert testing for both full-scale development and standalone-testing clients. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, software testing has become more
Four Ways to Fix Your WebRTC Application
I spend a lot of time on sales calls and with our WebRTC.ventures development clients. Many are building their application for the first time — a green field development that is every technologists’ ideal work! However, other times they have an existing application with major problems which they are asking us to fix. Fixing someone else’s application is not as much fun as building a new one from scratch, but it’s very necessary. Generally speaking, our team
7 Principles of Software Testing
At WebRTC.ventures, we operate with a clear vision of the fundamental principles of software testing, which guides our work. From my previous post on Types of Software Testing, you will remember that testing must be viewed as unequivocally parallel to the software development process. We perform software testing tasks in our device lab located in Panama City, Panama as part of our product development process to prevent functionality issues and to correct software deviations prior
Watch WebRTC Live #56 – How To Create Social Group Magic with WebRTC and Wonder
On the June 16, 2021 episode of WebRTC Live, Arin Sime was joined by Wonder Co-Founder Leonard Witteler, to talk about “How To Create Social Group Magic with WebRTC and Wonder.” Leonard and his team have used WebRTC to build a virtual space for groups to meet, talk, exchange ideas, and work together. We were first introduced to Wonder through the WebRTC UnConference, a great community open source discussion about WebRTC. What we thought was
Types of Software Tests
During a software development project, errors can appear in any stage of the life cycle. In many cases, those errors remain undiscovered until reaching critical environments. From this derives the importance of the implementation of QA testing from the earliest stages of the project. As users, we are increasingly demanding and impatient with technology. We want our applications to work without any failures and with the highest possible speed. Applications that are slow or do
Background Removal with the Vonage Video API
Introduction In a previous blog post we looked at how we could do background removal with Tensorflow in an Agora Video Chat. We saw how semantic segmentation can be used to detect background pixels in a video stream, and how we could use that information to apply a virtual background. This time, we'll take a look at integrating background removal with the Vonage Video API, as well as some optimizations that we found that improved
One for All, All for One: WebRTC Mesh Architecture
In its simplest incarnation, WebRTC allows you to set up a live peer-to-peer connection between two browsers to exchange private video, audio, and data between them. It looks like this: WebRTC in its simplest form Of course, you and I both know that we also need signaling and a couple of STUN/TURN servers to do the trick. For now, let’s leave out these components. Just remember that they are still there! Let’s make it a
Watch WebRTC Live #55 – Around – Building the Future of Collaborative Audio & Video Experiences
On the May 19, 2021 episode of WebRTC Live, Arin Sime was joined by Manik Sachdeva, Director of Engineering at Around. They discussed building the future of collaborative audio and video experiences. Previously a Software Engineering Manager at Vonage, Manik led the development of video APIs for web, mobile, and desktop applications. "Are meeting tools dead?" asks Arin. "No, but meetings are." Manik explains why he believes this is so and provides insight into the
Resources to Learn WebRTC
WebRTC is heralded as an easy way to access the camera and microphone from javascript and build peer-to-peer video chat applications with no downloads needed--and no expertise beyond javascript skills. This is a completely true statement for the simplest of scenarios. But as any technologist knows, the real world is rarely as simple as even the best of blog posts portray it. The truth is, learning WebRTC is not easy. And the many changes and
Watch WebRTC Live #54 – Unleashing the True Power of WebRTC with Real-Time AV1 SVC
On the April 28, 2021 episode of WebRTC Live, Arin Sime was joined by Sergio Garcia Murillo, founder and main developer for Meedoze technology, CoSMo's Media Server Tech Lead, and Millicast's Principal Engineer and Solution Architect. They explored enabling the next generation of live video architectures with Real-Time AV1 SVC. With Google Chrome announcing support for Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and a forwarding header extension, AV1 real-time encoding can be enabled for WebRTC. AV1 was
WebRTC Browser Compatibility
A WebRTC peer to peer connection allows two users to communicate directly, browser to browser, using the RTCPeerConnection API. However, each browser has implemented WebRTC independently and at different times. As a WebRTC developer, it was crucial for quite some time to know in which browsers things would work as expected. And, in which browser you could expect things to fail. WebRTC was added to Chrome in 2011, at the same time that it was
Watch WebRTC Live #53: Building a New Generation of Interactive Real-Time Streaming Solutions With WebRTC
On the April 14, 2021 episode of WebRTC Live, Arin was joined by Millicast Streaming Media Engineer Ryan Jespersen, to explore how the use of WebRTC is expanding beyond the initial core design. The last year has proved just how much human beings crave interaction. And also that interaction leads to engagement, which we saw in the proliferation of virtual watch parties and virtual audiences at sporting events. But for that engagement to be genuine,
Our WebRTC Development Process
Last week, we spoke about the skills and roles WebRTC.ventures can bring to your live video project when Hiring a Development Team. Today, we’ll continue that conversation with more about what happens after you hire us: contract models, our agile development process, and timelines. You can get all the information in both posts in one WebRTC Tips by WebRTC.ventures YouTube video. Or, read on: Contract Models We can build the complete application for you if
Hiring a WebRTC Development Team?
Working with WebRTC is in some ways a bit easier than it was a few years ago. In other ways, it has become more complex. Because WebRTC is being used in a larger variety of use cases with different needs and concerns and also at a larger scale than ever before, it helps to have a partner with a lot of experience. That's where we can come in play. WebRTC.ventures is a custom design agency
Job Opening: WebRTC Engineer (North/Central/South America-based)
Join our growing team of WebRTC engineers! We build live video applications for a variety of industries and seek additional talent in this growing field. We have several job openings for developers with a strong technical background that includes work in WebRTC or similar technologies and experience working in a collaborative, client-facing environment. English fluency for business/technical meetings is a must. As we work in a very agile team environment, we can only accept applications
Watch WebRTC Live #52: Automated Testing for WebRTC
Just a few years ago, many of the people knocking on our door at WebRTC.ventures were startups, really just exploring ideas around live video applications. We are now seeing a much more mature client base wanting production-ready apps and wanting to scale those applications as large as possible. Automated testing, or the use of software to validate your application behavior, is now more important than ever. As we've said before, the only thing harder than
Using 8×8’s “Jitsi As A Service” with WordPress
At WebRTC.ventures, our speciality is building completely custom live video applications. We build applications where live video is a central part of the workflow. Use cases include telehealth, interactive events, collaboration tools, and many others. There is, however, a problem we run into frequently. We're happy to report here that 8x8 (which acquired Jitsi last year) has come up with an interesting solution with their new Jitsi as a Service. 8x8's Jitsi as a Service solves a
Adding Recording to Your WebRTC Application
Building recording into your WebRTC video or audio application should never be an afterthought. When clients come to us at WebRTC.ventures looking to develop a WebRTC video or audio application, one of the first questions we ask is, “do you need recording?” If the answer is yes, the next question is always, “what for?” And then, “how much recording?” It is essential to think about these things up front. The answers will be an important
