The WebRTC Production Checklist

15 decisions your team needs to close before launch. The ones that are cheap now and expensive later

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Your team is building a WebRTC app. The roadmap is approved, the architecture is signed off, the launch date is on the calendar.

The question: will it survive production?

Most WebRTC projects don't fail on code. They fail on decisions made early that nobody revisits, where "we'll figure it out later" quietly becomes a six-figure line item.

This checklist walks through the 15 decisions every WebRTC project needs to close before launch. Use it to audit your team's readiness, align with your engineers, and ask the questions your vendors aren't volunteering.

What's inside

  • The architecture choice (P2P / SFU / MCU) that locks in your infrastructure costs for the next 3 years
  • When CPaaS is the right call, when it becomes a tax, and when a hybrid path saves both time and money
  • The codec decisions that determine whether Safari and iOS "just work" for your users
  • Why 10-15% of your users silently fail to connect, and what it costs to fix later vs. now
  • The quality monitoring gap behind most "the product feels broken" complaints
  • The load testing step most teams skip, and what happens at 2x expected traffic
  • Plus 9 more across architecture, infrastructure, media quality, security, and launch readiness

Each item is framed around a single question your team should be able to answer. If they can't, you've just found your next sprint.

Who it's for

  • Engineering leads assessing whether their team is production-ready
  • Product managers scoping WebRTC work without getting blindsided mid-build
  • Teams evaluating their WebRTC stack before a launch, a rearchitecture, or a vendor change

The point of this checklist isn't to make you a WebRTC expert. It's to give you sharper questions to ask.

About the author

Tsahi Levent-Levi is an independent WebRTC analyst. For the last decade he has advised the teams behind products at Twilio, Vonage, Stream, DeepHealth, and others, usually when they need a second opinion on architecture, vendor selection, or a launch that isn't going to plan. He writes BlogGeek.me and co-founded rtcStats.

I am Tsahi Levent-Levi

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