Monday Session 5: Realtime web applications with streaming REST

Presenter: Brad Gessler

State of apps

had REST for server backend
Backbone.js and Ember.js made cosuming REST API easier

Solutions

long pulling
- using setInterval and cahce
- doesn't work when you are dealing with large data streams
streaming

Picking a streaming layer

Socket.IO
- Issue with latency
- Routing only on channels not urls
Meteor
- new and tightly coupled

Firehose.io

idea was to push resources
pub/sub server using curl
URL's are the exchange
security
- proxy with Goliath[https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath] that hits Rails app

Take aways

Look at replacing mySQL with Postgres
Git process standardization, Git-flow http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/why-arent-you-using-git-flow/