Gain immediate WebRTC Insights
Keep on top of the changing landscape of WebRTC development and behavior
We’ve both been working in the WebRTC industry since its inception.
Philipp poured over lines of code, tinkering with libwebrtc itself.
Tsahi, assisting vendors with their strategies and roadmaps, building a successful testing and monitoring startup.
We’ve spent a considerable amount of time figuring out the changes in WebRTC - where it was going - both technically and on the market level.
As more and more vendors reached out to either of us online with questions, we decided it was time to help out more companies in our industry.
We decided it was time to create the WebRTC Insights. A premium newsletter service dedicated to reducing the time people spend trying to get up to date on all the changes in WebRTC.
Two ways to handle WebRTC
There are two ways to use WebRTC if you’re investing in it for the long run:
Passively
Waiting for troubles to find you, focusing on your feature set.
This gets you rapidly closing the feature gap of your roadmap, but you’ll be surprised time and again by breakage because of new browsers deployed, new APIs you missed, deprecations of older APIs, changed behavior and missed security patches.
It works, but how tolerant are your clients going to be about it?
Actively
Working towards knowing everything there is to know about the WebRTC ecosystem.
Check out discuss-webrtc, browser bug trackers and other forums across the internet each and every morning. Look at code changes submitted to libwebrtc and figure out if it relates to you.
That’s the way to do it! But are you sure you’re not missing something? And is it worthwhile to invest so much time and effort?
We’ve seen it time and again. Developers are getting surprised by a new breaking behavior of the latest Chrome release - one they could find out about and resolve a month earlier. Companies failing to update their native libwebrtc implementation and then being exposed to a known vulnerability.
Keeping track and staying on top of it all is quite a commitment. One that only specific developers have the inclination to do. Which is why you'd love how we're going to help you out here 😀
WebRTC Insights has become an invaluable tool for our Engineering teams, ensuring we stay current with the latest WebRTC trends and enabling us to proactively address WebRTC issues. This service saves us a significant amount of time and resources by eliminating the need for independent research. It is a must-have for any organization developing with WebRTC.
Tim Ikhizgilov
Senior Director of Engineering @ RingCentral
WebRTC insights might be the most important email you read every fortnight as a RTC / video engineer. It’s hard to keep tabs on what Google et al are doing with WebRTC while working on your product and the WebRTC Insights provides very specific and actionable items that help tremendously. We have been ahead countless times because of it. If you are serious about WebRTC you should definitely subscribe - 100% worth it.
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Principal Software Engineer @ 8x8 (Jitsi)
Here is what you'll be able to achieve:
FOCUS
- You focus on your application
- We focus on keeping you up to speed with important WebRTC developments
This way, you'll be able to easily separate the wheat from the chaff with the digested information you'll get from us.
READINESS
- Be aware of upcoming deprecations and behavior changes in browser implementations
- Act proactively when security patches are available to the WebRTC codebase
OPPORTUNITY
- Understand when new features and capabilities become available
- Make informed decisions about your roadmap planning and development effort
What’s WebRTC Insights?
WebRTC Insights is a unique service by Philipp Hancke and Tsahi Levent-Levi that keeps track of the things that matter to you.
Instead of having your developers sift through Chrome bug reports and updates, W3C emails and other news items, we bring it to you directly.
Goals
1
Get you actionable insights on things happening in the WebRTC ecosystem that affect your development.
2
Reduce time and frustration you spend on WebRTC issues and let you focus on core business.
Every 2 weeks, you and your team will be receiving an email with the latest WebRTC Insights issue. The issue is delivered as a PDF covering everything relevant to you that happened in the past 2 weeks. Got a question? Just hit reply and ask.
You will be able to use this concise and actionable issue to tweak your plans and make both short term and long term changes in your WebRTC development based on it.
Before WebRTC Insights I would spend countless hours hunting down issues and updates, often skimming through multiple browser's issue trackers to find valuable pieces of information for issues we were currently facing. Time and time again, WebRTC Insights have been ahead on tracking important issues and giving them to me in an easily digestible format. It has allowed me to spend more time improving the experience of our customers, rather than constantly chasing WebRTC updates.
Dag-Inge Aas
Product Manager, Call Quality @ Daily
WebRTC Insights enables us to focus on the user experience of our meetings platform, taking a lot of the pain points of WebRTC away. It is closing many gaps that the WebRTC release notes are leaving and includes many browser related updates that would be difficult to find otherwise. Quite often, these insights allowed our teams to resolve customer issues a lot faster than we did before.
We understand, with higher confidence, where we need to invest in the coming months as WebRTC Insights shows where the current efforts are placed in WebRTC, what the current pain points are, what is being worked on and what went wrong. This means we are better prepared for what is coming with WebRTC.
Michael Fröhlich
Director of Engineering @ GoTo
Inside the WebRTC Insights
Each issue of the WebRTC Insights includes the following sections:
1
From the issue tracker
A prioritized list of bugs that were issued or updated across the major browsers, related to WebRTC
2
Mailing lists & PSAs
A prioritized list of issues and discussions we found relevant to bring to your attention
3
Chrome origin trials
A best effort list of the ongoing origin trials that Google is conducting in Chrome which are relevant to WebRTC
4
WebRTC Security
An ongoing log of our own about security CVEs (known vulnerabilities) in WebRTC. Since Google doesn’t maintains a good list, we decided to create one just for you
5
Market Insights
A review of the market trends and major developments and announcements we think you need to know about
This isn’t just a set of lists of links - for each item, we provide the reason we added it, along with actionable suggestions where it makes sense.
Release notes videos
Every month Google releases a new Chrome version.
Every month, libwebrtc gets a new official Google release as well.
What's in these releases? What should you be doing about it? We record a quick and focused video, covering the official libwebrtc release notes, telling you where you should be focusing your attention in this release.
This is quite useful when it comes to deciding if a specific libwebrtc version should be upgraded to or skipped in your native implementation; and to decide where to focus your development attention.
We also make the videos publicly available for all, but keep the last 2-3 release notes videos open only to our Insights clients. Here's the public ones.
The monthly brainstorm
An optional piece complementing the WebRTC Insights is the Monthly Brainstorm:
This is an online session, where Tsahi Levent-Levi will sit together to better understand your challenges, share his own knowledge and experience and assist where he can.
This meeting will have an agenda set to it in advance and prepare for it as necessary.
In these sessions, Tsahi will offer his own suggestions, and if it makes sense, will gather more information through his network of contacts to assist you further.
Unlimited access to courses
An optional add-on to the WebRTC Insights.
The Exclusive plan includes unlimited access to any number of your employees to the WebRTC courses. This includes access to:
1
Advanced WebRTC Architecture - a structured training course of WebRTC, taking you from a noob into an expert in WebRTC. The focus here is on understanding the architecture and enabling you to design robust, scalable infrastructure for WebRTC applications.
2
WebRTC Codelab - a step by step walkthrough of developing a WebRTC application from scratch using Node.js, guiding you
through all the nuances and complexities you should be aware of when using the WebRTC APIs.
3
WebRTC Protocols - low level and higher-level protocols courses, covering the ins and outs of what goes on the wire when
WebRTC is used.
4
WebRTC Tooling - interviews with the leading developers of many of the WebRTC frameworks you may find yourself using, hearing from them how to best use their tools. This is complemented with a set of snippets on many WebRTC topics not directly covered in the architecture course.
5
Supporting WebRTC - a special course geared towards the people that end up supporting users. Either presale engineers or support personnel who are your frontline of dealing with the day to day issues your clients run into.
Focus on what matters
Try us out for a month or two. Your developers are bound to find these issues useful.
Who knows? You might even be able to fix a bug or two before you bump into them.
WebRTC Insights is an invaluable resource for anyone in the WebRTC space. As someone who participated in the ideation of the offering, I can attest to the depth and breadth of knowledge provided by experts Philipp Hancke and Tsahi Levent-Levi. Their clear explanations of complex topics make this service a must-have for both beginners and veterans in WebRTC development. Highly recommended for staying updated in the ever-evolving WebRTC landscape.
Arnaud Budkiewicz
VP Engineering @ Dialpad
This newsletter has been great and very helpful. I wish we had
subscribed 2 years ago.
Sean MacIsaac
Founder and EVP, Engineering @ Roam
TSAHI LEVENT-LEVI
I am an Independent Analyst and Consultant for WebRTC.
Tsahi Levent-Levi has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, VoIP and 3G industry as an engineer, manager, marketer and CTO. Tsahi is an entrepreneur, independent analyst and consultant, assisting companies to form a bridge between technologies and business strategy in the domain of telecommunications.
He is also Senior Director of Product Management at Cyara, following the successful acquisition of testRTC (a WebRTC testing and monitoring SaaS vendor) where he acted as Co-founder and CEO prior to the acquisition.
PHILIPP HANCKE
Philipp Hancke has been tinkering with WebRTC full-time since 2012 in various roles.
As a result he has learned a couple of strategies for filing bugs with the browser vendors, in particular Google’s WebRTC team and getting them to actually fix the issues reported. Filing close to 300 issues of which 40% were fixed taught him quite a lot about what works and what does not. Philipp is the #1 external contributor to the WebRTC library and has contributed a lot in Chromium as well with a particular focus on testing and preventing regressions from happening.
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For many years, I have had the pleasure of collaborating and learning. More than a technologist, Tsahi is an incredible coach and mentor. I would recommend him to anyone wanting to learn about this space, challenge their own status quo and help get the push needed to innovate.
Serge Lachapelle
Director of Product Management,
Google Workspace
For any Service Provider or Apps who heavily relies on WebRTC, the WebRTC Insights offers great value. Developers now have a well-organized reference to quickly understand known issues and industry trends to stay ahead of the curve – it really bridges the gap for developers who are not closely involved in WebRTC stack development but yet relies on it.
What I like most about the Insights is its bi-weekly cadence, which fits the rapid Chrome/WebRTC release cycle, and most of the mentions are actionable for us. With the recent Safari audio breakage, the Insights highlighted the problem timely and saved us a lot of troubleshooting effort.
Jim Fan
Engineering Director at Dolby Laboratories
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Definitely. Open source is great - we’re all for it. But you kinda get what you paid for.
There’s a lot of maintenance and optimization work you need to do with open source media servers, and the WebRTC Insights can help you out in prioritizing that work.
Probably not. Unless you are planning on switching to developing your own infrastructure, in which case, it might be wise to subscribe for a month or two to understand what’s ahead of you.
That said, we do have a few WebRTC Insights clients who use third party CPaaS vendors and still find this service highly useful - especially in keeping tabs with the issues their end users complain about (and with keeping their CPaaS vendors straight).
Monthly and yearly plans are available.
Payment can be made via wire transfer, PayPal and credit card.
That’s a matter of perspective.
If you have a developer investing his time in it, then he is probably pouring 20 hours or more a month on it. If you don’t, you should consider the price you’re paying by being left uninformed.
I'd also consider the price of missing a security patch, a PSA or a bug that you could have found a month or more in advance with the WebRTC Insights.
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