[aleda145]

Appreciate you putting the entire book online!

I read parts of it a while ago when I had an idea on using webRTC data channels to pass data from databases to browser clients via a CLI. Your book made me understand that it's probably not a great fit for my use case. I just used a centralized control plane and websockets instead.

I still feel like there is something fun that we can do with webRTC data channels + zero copy Apache Arrow arraybuffers + duckdb WASM, but haven't figured it out yet

[Sean-Der]

Thanks for reading it!

You can't beat Websockets :) Especially since you have so much tooling/existing stuff that works with HTTP.

I have been trying to get a website off the ground that does Datachannels + SQlite in the browser and then users sync between each other. I have gotten distracted so many times though.

[aleda145]

Super cool! Please give me a ping if you ever launch that (my email is on my website (in my profile))

[oezi]

What is preventing the fun is that even though we now have IPv6 widely enough available we still can't have p2p connections in the browser without a cumbersome control plane of servers. If you could join a federation in the browser from some bootstrap IPs then I think we could have some real distributed fun.