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I’m an instructional designer on Cloudinary’s Solutions and Training team. As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in March, like other global organizations, we pivoted to set up virtual courses. As much as we looked forward to resuming in-person classes in the future, we switched gear to focus on the virtual way of learning.

Since 1999, WebRTC has served as an open-source and free solution for real-time audio and video communications within webpages, eliminating the need to use plugins, native apps, or other third-party software. I first became aware of WebRTC when Google and other browser vendors started supporting it. Many products, including Amazon Chime and Slack, have since jumped on the bandwagon.

I’m a developer turned instructional designer. In fact, I’ve been coding professionally since graduate school in the mid-1980s and have worked through many iterations of delivering apps to users over the decades. It just keeps getting to be more and more fun!