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TechTok catch up – Designing Your Data Warehouse
At November’s TechTok, Tom O’Neill, CTO of Periscope Data , gave us some ideas about how to design data warehouses. Tom focused on how Redshift uses distributed data and columnar storage to speed up...
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Introducing the OpenTok Apple TV OS SDK (beta)
Today we’re excited to introduce the first WebRTC SDK for the AppleTV to support the next generation of endpoints – the television. The rise of mobile, open sourced software and social networks has...
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Introducing Spotlight: your interactive live broadcast solution
Over the last 5 years, we’ve helped hundreds of companies create rich and engaging applications with OpenTok powered live video and voice. Now, we’re bringing broadcasters and brands (who are now...
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TechTok: Application Security’s Last Mile – The Future is Reactive
Application Security has been focused on vulnerability prevention: reducing attack surface, audits, and multiple cycles of pen testing and remediation. The adage: “an ounce of prevention is worth a...
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Announcing OpenTok Support for Bitcode in Beta
We’re happy to announce the release of the OpenTok 2.7.1-beta.1 Bitcode version. Apple added Bitcode binary support for developer apps as part of the app thinning process. The reason behind this is to...
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Introducing the Annotation Widget in Beta
Embedded communications is so powerful because of one very important factor – context. Whether that’s a web page, presentation, LMS, medical scan, (the list goes on), context enhances the conversation....
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When a Chrome update breaks your WebRTC application
Early December saw the roll-out of Chrome 47. When doing anything with WebRTC, this is always an interesting time. A release brings new features or may break things, like removing the getUserMedia...
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The optk Developer Command Line Utility
When I’m working on developing an OpenTok application, I want to move fast. As a software engineer, I have loads of little workflow shortcuts, scripts, tricks, and favorite tools. When I started to...
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TokBox at the Largest Hackathon in History
The Event Set to be the largest hackathon in history , TokBox is proud to be sponsoring the Koding & Hacksummit hackathon, February 20-21. More than 25,000 teams will participate in the hackathon...
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How to get a WebRTC Diagnostic Recording from Chrome 49+
Have you ever had to support a WebRTC application and needed to get packet dumps from the user? Wireshark is a great tool for this, but asking a user to install it and make a dump rarely works. It’s...
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Lip-sync Issues: When a Chrome Update Fixes your Application
This post was co-authored by Gustavo Garcia Bernardo, Philipp Hancke and Charley Robinson. When WebRTC stuff is really broken, it gets fixed very quickly. Early in December 2015, shortly after the...
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Introducing the One-to-One Sample App
We’re excited to announce the release of the OpenTok One-to-One Sample Application across web, iOS and Android. This open-source application enables you to speed up your development efforts to set up...
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Coming Soon: The New & Improved TokBox Account Interface
Since we launched the new version of our platform back in 2012, one of our goals has always been to make it very easy to manage and understand how your applications are performing. In addition to...
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Automated Testing for OpenTok Applications in the Browser
Web Application Developers are used to being able to write automated tests for their applications and have them run with every PR and before deploying to production to give a level of confidence that...
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Introducing The OpenTok Playground
When evaluating a new product or service, we know how important it is to be able to test out the technology first. Stakeholders in different areas of the business, both developers and non developers,...
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Do 12% of WebRTC calls really fail?
I was talking with our old friend Philipp Hancke and discussing how it could be possible that 12% of the WebRTC calls were failing. This number came as a surprise to us as, based on our reports, the...
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Camera Filters in OpenTok for Web
Despite the fact that filters are used a lot in non-WebRTC video applications like Photo Booth and SnapChat, we haven’t seen many WebRTC applications using these types of filters. This is probably...
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New Release: OpenTok iOS & Android 2.9
We are excited to announce the release of the OpenTok 2.9 Android and iOS SDKs. We’ve made a number of important changes with this release. What’s new? Automatic Reconnect With this version your client...
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New in iOS 10: The Best WebRTC Apps Yet
Today, it is easier than ever to get involved in real-time communications, using WebRTC. For those considering investing in a mobile strategy, the technology ecosystem has never been more ripe for...
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JWT – The New Authentication Scheme for OpenTok REST Endpoints
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