on the Architectural Missmatch of Polling Feeds
Imagine you blog & everybody is reading!I was - like many - starting to ask questions if the polling feeds concept will scale - the more services and people are starting to use personal aggregators services like Tumblr and FriendFeed. I guess this presentation was a tipping point and call for action - that caused a wide-spread discussion and solution proposals interesting to follow.
I used the opportunity of the BlogCamp Zürich to create a presentation providing an overview of the challenge and explaining some of the possible solutions.
The links/sites mentioned during the presentation
I think that the whole Web 2.0 is a huge architectural mismatch. It basically lives because of the "Install Problem" (see "Hybridizing Java", a really interesting blog entry on RIa by Bruce Eckel here: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=193593)
If you are looking for spots to read, I suggest searching for "WebSocket" and "SSE" (Server Side Events) which is planned to be included in HTML 5.
"Comet" today is essentially a hack.
If you want to jump in directly, there exists software which is specifically designed for a transition:
Orbited (http://www.orbited.org/) and Kaazing Gateway (http://www.kaazing.org).
At these sites they also talk a bit about how to get protocols through to the browser (talking about XMPP etc.; and don't get me started on XMPP *g* because I think that this whole connection = XML document thing is nonsense).
Regards,
Dieter
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Dieter |
November 29, 2008 1:42 AM
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