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What is deepstream? The website doesn't really say what it is for.

by Zod666 7y ago

yasserf 7y ago
https://deepstream.io/tutorials/concepts/what-is-deepstream/ https://deepstream.io/tutorials/concepts/what-is-deepstream/ Generally deepstream is an alternative to using firebase, socket.io, featherJS and meteor. However rather than putting the logic within the server you instead run them as microservices and allow deepstream to handle load-balancing for you. The two main things deepstream offers are: - Events You can publish and subscribe to events by simple doing: deepstream.event.emit('event-name', data) deepstream.event.subscribe('event-name', data => {}) Which is the functionality you expect to see from most pubsub mechanisms - Records Records is events with persistence. They are more heavy weight objects that persist their content in a cache + db and across all connected devices without the user/developer having to actually do anything. The also support offline support if you want to be able to get/set data while offline. // get a record const record = client.record.getRecord('unique-data-name') // wait for record to be loaded from server await record.whenReady() // subscribe to any changes that happen in the future record.subscribe(data => console.log('someone updated this object!', data) // discard when finished record.discard() You can also set data directly without having to subscribe using client.record.setData('some-record', newData) The are multiple other aspects deepstream provides like merge-conflicts, permissions, authentication and some useful patterns, but the above code is about 90% of what you would expect a user to use in deepstream
manigandham 7y ago
It's a real-time pub/sub messaging system (competitive to NATS), with built in messaging patterns like request/response. Also supports persistence of data records (JSON docs) and syncing changes to those docs (competitive to Firebase, etc), backed by Redis. Works with different protocols (websocket, MQTT, HTTP) and has client libraries for popular languages.
emmelaich 7y ago
Yeah odd. The github link though has ... > deepstream is an open source server inspired by concepts behind financial trading technology. It allows clients and backend services to sync data, send messages and make rpcs at very high speed and scale.

What is deepstream? The website doesn't really say what it is for.

by Zod666 7y ago

What is deepstream? The website doesn't really say what it is for.

https://deepstream.io/tutorials/concepts/what-is-deepstream/ https://deepstream.io/tutorials/concepts/what-is-deepstream/ Generally deepstream is an alternative to using firebase, socket.io, featherJS and meteor. However rather than putting the logic within the server you instead run them as microservices and allow deepstream to handle load-balancing for you. The two main things deepstream offers are: - Events You can publish and subscribe to events by simple doing: deepstream.event.emit('event-name', data) deepstream.event.subscribe('event-name', data => {}) Which is the functionality you expect to see from most pubsub mechanisms - Records Records is events with persistence. They are more heavy weight objects that persist their content in a cache + db and across all connected devices without the user/developer having to actually do anything. The also support offline support if you want to be able to get/set data while offline. // get a record const record = client.record.getRecord('unique-data-name') // wait for record to be loaded from server await record.whenReady() // subscribe to any changes that happen in the future record.subscribe(data => console.log('someone updated this object!', data) // discard when finished record.discard() You can also set data directly without having to subscribe using client.record.setData('some-record', newData) The are multiple other aspects deepstream provides like merge-conflicts, permissions, authentication and some useful patterns, but the above code is about 90% of what you would expect a user to use in deepstream

manigandham 7y ago

It's a real-time pub/sub messaging system (competitive to NATS), with built in messaging patterns like request/response. Also supports persistence of data records (JSON docs) and syncing changes to those docs (competitive to Firebase, etc), backed by Redis. Works with different protocols (websocket, MQTT, HTTP) and has client libraries for popular languages.

emmelaich 7y ago

Yeah odd. The github link though has ... > deepstream is an open source server inspired by concepts behind financial trading technology. It allows clients and backend services to sync data, send messages and make rpcs at very high speed and scale.