Chapter 8. Advanced Security and Large-scale Optimization

Up to this point, we have covered a shallow portion of the entirety of WebRTC. This has been limited to what we could build in a chapter inside our local computer without hooking up to any real services. This is great if it's only limited to you or a few of your friends but, unfortunately, this will not lead you to being able to connect thousands of people across the world. To do this, we will have to dive into deeper and more advanced topics, such as security, performance, and supporting large-scale networks.

The aim of this chapter is to provide a small amount of information on these topics so that you can research them in more depth at your leisure. Most of the information will be conceptual ...

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