AV1 Specification Released: Can we kiss goodbye to HEVC and royalty bearing video codecs?

The newly released AV1 codec marks an important milestone in our road to royalty free video codecs. Here's a detailed analysis of what it means.

If you plan on implementing a one-to-many WebRTC broadcast scenario, then be prepared to install and maintain media servers to make this happen.

WebRTC can be used for calls in any group size. The larger the group the more energy you'll need to put to your architecture and media server technology.

There are different ways to explain how WebRTC works. This is my attempt at a WebRTC 101 article that covers it from all angles.

Jitsi videobridge is a popular media server for WebRTC and it is going some interesting changes recently. Here's a summary of where we're at.

A summary of WebRTC Kranky Geek 2017 event which focused on real world implementations, scaling and machine learning.

Processing media is a rather challenging process. Understanding how it works and why it is different than web pages is important.

WebRTC != Web Development. And you need to understand the differences in order to be able to effectively develop WebRTC applications.

An explanation on where to place each of the servers WebRTC needs when running it seriously in production.

Google (or anyone else) don't provide a free TURN server. There are reasons why this is the case and why you should pay for your own TURN server deployment.