155 JSJ Webtorrent with Feross Aboukhadijeh

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02:01 - Feross Aboukhadijeh Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:39 - Peer-to-Peer Background, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

• WebRTC
• PeerCDN
• BitTorrent

09:43 - The BitTorrent Protocol and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• [YouTube] Feross Aboukhadijeh: WebTorrent (JSConf.Asia 2014)
  • Distributed Hash Table (DHT)

13:08 - WebTorrent = BitTorrent over WebRTC

• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• The User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)

17:22 - Where Do Original Files Come From?

• Tracker Servers
• BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal (BEP)

21:23 - Opposition

27:26 - Where is WebTorrent Going? (Use Cases)

• Instant.io
  • [GitHub] instant.io

29:52 - Live Broadcasts

31:12 - Progression of BitTorrent Over Time

• Technical Decentralization

35:03 - Same-Origin Policy

36:33 - Firefox Hello

Picks

January 12th, 2016: Goodbye IE8 and IE9! (Dave)
js-must-watch (Aimee)
Headspace (Aimee)
Popcorn Time (AJ)
Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Teespring (Chuck)
Loop Drop by Matt McKegg (Feross)
SceneVR by Ben Nolan (Feross)
WebTorrent (Feross)
node-nat-upnp (AJ)
node-nat-pmp (AJ)
simple-peer (Feross)