I was reading about the of people were facing with Zoom recently. Given the rise of COVID-19 and the need to work remotely, remote conferencing software seems to very much in demand. This got me thinking about the technologies involved. This post is about me going down the rabbit hole and is a summary of my explorations.

Rediscovering WebRTC [1]

• WebRTC

WebSockets vs WebRTC [2]

• Websockets vs WebRTC

Python implementation of WebRTC [3] [4]

• aiortc
• FOSSDEM Talk

HTTP3 [5] [6]

• QUIC
• mvfst

Python implementation of QUIC [7]

• aioquic