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Re:Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and... by sansseriff on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:19PM (#38072483)
What's a good place to learn about all the networking jargon in this article?

Also, a nitpicky point: As a community it would be nice to stop thinking of 'links to wikipedia pages, mdn docs, or github issues' as useful or pertinent forms of citations or footnotes. If I'm immersed in an article and I come across a term I don't know like 'SCTP', do you think a link to some dense proposal standard webpage is appropriate in this context for providing the background info I need?

Of course academia is guilty of this too. Canonical citations don't tell the reader much else beyond 'I know what I'm talking about' and 'if you want to know more spend 30 minutes reading this other article'

But since we're web based here I think we can do better. Tooltips that expand into a helpful paragraph about e.g. SCTP would be a start.

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Re:Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and... by IKantRead on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:41PM (#38072796)
I really like High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik. It's published by O'Reilly but is also free online [0]. What's particularly great about it is, unlike most other networking books, it focuses on the issue from the browser/web developer perspective which is particularly helpful for WebRTC and generally applicable to daily web dev work.

0. https://hpbn.co/

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Re:Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and... by englishm on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:37PM (#38072741)
Here are a couple resources which may be helpful:

- https://www.mux.com/video-glossary

- https://howvideo.works/

Also, if you do want to take the time to read a longer and denser article, but come away with an understanding of much of the breadth of modern streaming tech, there's a really great survey paper available in pre-print here:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.03256

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Re:Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and... by Sean-Der on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:22PM (#38072519)
For the WebRTC jargon check out https://webrtcforthecurious.com/

If that still doesn’t cover enough I would love to hear! Always trying to make it better.

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