Andrii Sergiienko - WebRTC Cookbook

Andrii Sergiienko is a computer software developer from Ukraine and is passionate about information technologies. From his early childhood, he was interested in computer programming and hardware. He took his first step into these fields more than 20 years ago. He has experience of a wide set of languages and technologies including C, C++, Java, assembly language, Erlang, JavaScript, PHP, Riak, shell scripting, computer networks, and security.

During his career he worked for both small, local companies such as domestic ISP and large, worldwide corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He also started his own projectssome of them were relatively successful.

Today, he is the owner and inspirer of OSLIKAS O, a computer software company with headquarters in Estonia. The company (http://www.oslikas.com) focuses on modern IT technologies and solutions.

Working on this book was a really great and interesting experience for me. All this would be impossible without the help of certain people. And now is the time for me to say thank you to them.

First of all, I would like to thank my parents Olga and Alexander for my happy childhood that established the foundation for my life and career.

I would like to say thank you to my wife Inna for her patience, encouragement, and support during this process.

I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team as well. These guys are doing really great work and making the world a better place. We contacted some of them directly during the work, and others stayed behind the scenes. However, I know that a lot of people spent part of their lives to make this book possible. Thank you all.

Pasquale Boemio fell in love with Linux and the open source philosophy at the age of 12. Following this passion, he studied computer engineering at University of Naples Federico II from where he graduated with a master's degree.

Currently, he is working as a researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) in the University of Naples Federico II, contributing to the development of real-time communication technologies. His efforts in this field are concretized by supporting the Meetecho project (www.meetecho.com).

Meetecho is a university spin-off and a tool for the collaborative work currently used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to provide remote participation to the working groups. Meetecho leverages some state-of-the-art technologies (such as WebRTC and Docker) to implement a comprehensive architecture that can be lightweight and portable. Meetecho's best project is the Janus WebRTC Gateway (http://janus.conf.meetecho.com/), mentioned later in this book, which allows a user the ability to integrate different, real-time technologies without any pains.

In his spare time, Pasquale works on some personal open source projects (https://github.com/helloIAmPau) and helps the community by giving his contributions to cool projects found on the GitHub platform.

He has already worked with Packt Publishing by reviewing WebRTC Integrator's Guide , a useful guide for anyone who needs to integrate WebRTC with a retro technology such as SIP.

Jose Lpez was born in Galicia, Spain. He is a telecommunications engineer with a large amount of experience in software development, and is also focused on real-time audio/video communications. He started working for Quobis Networks in 2013, a leading company in WebRTC solutions.

Marcos de Vera Piquero is a software engineer who has mainly worked with Python and CoffeeScript. His area of development is now focused on the server side of real-time multimedia applications at Quobis, his current employer. He's also a free software enthusiast and is trying to make it a real alternative.

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Preface

WebRTC is a relatively new and revolutionary technology that opens new horizons in the area of interactive applications and services. Most of the popular web browsers support it natively (such as Chrome and Firefox) or via extensions (such as Safari). Mobile platforms such as Android and iOS allow you to develop native WebRTC applications.

This book covers a wide set of topics on how to develop software using a WebRTC stack. Using practical recipes, it considers basic concepts, security, debugging, integration with other technologies, and other important themes of the development process in a friendly manner.