In 2020 we saw a huge spike in interest for RTC. Developers worked quickly to build new tools with the challenge of a socially distanced world. Go has really started to make strides in the RTC world with Pion. Easy deploy, great performance, memory safety and ability to prototype helped it take on C/C++.

This talk shows you some basics on WebRTC, then how to use Pion and what you can build with it

• What does WebRTC give us?

• What technical real world limitations does WebRTC need to overcome to give us that?

• WebRTC broken down to 4 parts

  • Signaling
  • Connectivity
  • Encryption
  • Media/Data

• Pion

  • Connecting
  • Using DataChannels
  • Using Media

Open Source Showcase (https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion)

• All from https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion
• https://twitter.com/_pion/status/1273910045244133376
• https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole
• https://github.com/mxseba/rtc-ssh
• https://github.com/nurdism/neko
• https://github.com/maxmcd/webtty
• https://github.com/giongto35/cloud-morph
• https://github.com/s4y/space
• https://cedricverst.medium.com/streaming-surveillance-cameras-using-webrtc-403ef36795f8

WebRTC was the technology everyone wanted to learn in 2020. With COVID and WFH new developers and companies came pouring into the scene. They had lots of problems making their vision happen. Many of them didn't even know what WebRTC was. When they figured that out they still had to make the long journey of figuring out how to build. This talk is my reflection of helping developerswith Pion WebRTC. WebRTC has so much potential. We just need to solve some technical, educational and cultural problems.

Out of those experiences we started WebRTC for the Curious and tried to make Pion easier to use. I also have some future ideas that I would love help from the RTC community.