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Ever felt like your communication needs were on the slow boat to China? Well, WebRTC and Web Sockets, let the gas begins! These two technologies are twins in real-time communication and can be compared to Batman and Robin, in as much as they have their individual specials powers.
Let's break down the basics:
WebRTC: Well, consider it the integral part of video and audio communication as it is often referred to as their superhero. For example, it is excellent for applications such as a video call, video game, and streaming.
Web Sockets: This one is slightly more complex, it is in fact the communicational equivalent of a Swiss Army knife. It can cover many formats of data such as text, text messages, or binary form of data.
Well, which one of them should you go for?
It relies with what you want to realise. There is a single answer to real-time audio or video: WebRTC.
Let's dive deeper into the differences:
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Data types: WebRTC mainly focuses only on the audio and video calling applications. While, for its part, Web Socket sending method is universal and may transmit text data, JSON, and binary data.
Latency: This architecture implemented by WebRTC embraces low latency, which is well suitable especially in case of real time interactivity.
Scalability: WebRTC and Web Sockets can easily be scaled for use with a large amount of users. But perhaps WebRTC has some drawbacks when it comes to the extreme scalability of extremely large-scale applications.
Security: Each of the technologies has the security inherent to it, nevertheless, I have to say that you ought to take further steps in order to secure your applications.
Indeed, few single choices may raise doubts and, therefore, it is better to bet on one of the available options. Here are some tips:
Consider your use case: How do you have to communicate synchronously? Audio/video? Text chat? Data updates?
Think about performance: Do you require minimum delay for data transfer, voice or video streams?
Evaluate scalability: How many users are you expecting?
Factor in security: So do security measures have to be put into an action?
In the long run the decision will be yours depending on which supplement meets your needs most?