technology
Low-Latency Streaming
Low-latency streaming decides whether a live tip lands while it still means something. This piece traces how the adult industry, under unusual financial pressure, pushed WebRTC past its comfort zone and worked out the scaling tricks now used across interactive live streaming. It covers glass-to-glass delay, selective forwarding units, cascading server trees, the WebRTC-plus-HLS split, and newer protocols like WHIP and Media over QUIC that could make the whole balancing act obsolete.