Spotlight: Karl Stolley (Author) Interview and AMA!

[AstonJ]

Another fantastic spotlight, and I think that’s one of the best explanations of WebRTC I’ve seen to date!

I have some questions for you Karl!

@karlstolley

It is a web API. So it is something that ships in all modern browsers. It gives us a way of establishing peer-to-peer connections across the web, and it does so without any third-party server sitting in the middle.

I think it’s important to note how radical that is.

• Other than video chat, where else do you think WebRTC is currently commonly being used? And where do you think it may end up getting used more in future?

• What other radical web or browser-based tech do you think we’ll see in future?

Thanks for writing the book, we should definitely do a book club for it one day! For anyone interested, here’s the original thread for the book: Programming WebRTC (PragProg)

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@PragmaticErica

I now know how to spell epideictic

I now know that such a word exists, never mind spell it All the rhetoric about rhetoric cracked me up as well