Join Philipp Hancke and me for a free training on WebRTC 1.0, prior to the relaunch of my advanced WebRTC training.
Here’s something that I get at least once a week through my website’s chat widget:
It is one of the main reasons why I’ve created my advanced WebRTC course. It is a paid WebRTC course that is designed to fill in the gaps and answer the many questions developers face when needing to deal with WebRTC.
Elephants, blind Men, alligators and WebRTC
I wanted to connect it to the parable of the six blind man and an elephant, explaining how wherever you go in the Internet, you are going to get a glimpse about WebRTC and never a full clear picture. I even searched for a good illustration to use for it. Then I bumped into this illustration:
It depicts what happens with WebRTC and developers all too well.
If you haven’t guessed it, the elephants here are WebRTC and the requirements of the application and that flat person is the developer.
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This fits well with another joke I heard yesterday from a friend’s kid:
Q: Why can’t you go into the woods between 14:00-16:00?
A: Because the elephants are skydiving
There’s a follow up joke as well:
Q: Why are the alligators flat?
A: Because they entered the woods between 14:00-16:00
WebRTC development has a lot of rules. Many of which are unwritten.
WebRTC 1.0
There is a lot of nuances about WebRTC. A lot of written material, old and new – some of it irrelevant now, the rest might be correct but jumbled. And WebRTC is a moving target. It is hard to keep track of all the changes. There’s a lot of knowledge around WebRTC that is required – knowledge that doesn’t look like an API call or written in the standard specification.
This means that I get to update my course every few months just to keep up.
With WebRTC 1.0, there’s both a real challenge as well as an opportunity.
It is a challenge:
- WebRTC 1.0 still isn’t here. There’s a working draft, which should get standardized *soon* (=soon started in 2015, and probably ends in 2018, hopefully)
- Browser implementations lag behind the latest WebRTC 1.0 draft
- Browser implementations don’t behave the same, or implement the same parts of the latest WebRTC 1.0 draft
It is an opportunity:
We might actually get to a point where we have a stable API with stable implementations.
But we’re still not there 🙁
Should you wait?
No.
We’re 6-7 years in with WebRTC (depending who does the counting), and this hasn’t stopped well over a 1,000 vendors to jump in and make use of WebRTC in production services.
There’s already massive use of WebRTC.
Me and WebRTC 1.0
For me, WebRTC 1.0 is somewhat of a new topic.
I try to avoid the discussions going on around WebRTC in the standardization bodies. The work they do is important and critical, but often tedious. I had my fair share of it in the past with other standards and it isn’t something I enjoy these days.
This caused a kind of a challenge for me as well. How can I teach WebRTC, in a premium course, without explaining WebRTC 1.0 – a topic that needs to be addressed as developers need to prepare for the changes that are coming.
The answer was to ask Philipp Hancke to help out here, and create a course lesson for me on WebRTC 1.0. I like doing projects with Philipp, and do so on many fronts, so this is one additional project. It also isn’t the first time either – the bonus materials of my WebRTC course includes a recorded lesson by Philipp about video quality in WebRTC.
Free WebRTC 1.0 Webinar
Tomorrow, we will be recording the WebRTC 1.0 lesson together for my course. I’ll be there, and this time, partially as a student.
To make things a bit more interesting, as well as promoting the whole course, this lesson will be given live in the form of a free webinar:
- Anyone can join for free to learn about WebRTC 1.0
- The recording will only be available as part of the advanced WebRTC course
This webinar/lesson will take place on
Tuesday, April 10
2-3PM EST (view in your timezone)
The session’s recording will NOT be available after the event itself. While this lesson is free to attend live, the recording will become an integral part of the course’ lessons.