In the past, we’ve spoken of three different types of WebRTC application architectures. There’s a new kid on the block, WebRTC Unbundling, which Arin explores here.
WebRTC Developer is actually a broader job description than you might imagine. Arin identifies five different types of WebRTC Developers (JavaScript CPaaS Integrator, Mobile Video Developer, Open Source Media Server Developer, DevOps Scaler, and the WebRTC Protocol Engineer) and considers when you might need each for your WebRTC project.
The Offscreen Canvas API allows for performance enhancements and some interesting techniques that will become more and more a part of WebRTC applications being built now and in the future. By offloading heavy media processing off of the main Javascript thread, high resolution or graphically intensive applications can be provided directly in the browser, without affecting the user’s experience.
Live video applications are the engine that is allowing the global economy to continue to grow in these unprecedented times. We need to add more experienced WebRTC engineers to our team! The new WebRTC.ventures Training Program will prepare you to do just that.