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Interesting that they choose the Firebase protocol.
by johns 13y ago
Interesting that they choose the Firebase protocol.
- 650REDHAIR 13y agoLikewise! Looking forward to more API documentation from Nest. Also, nice work guys! This is a great step forward for Firebase.
- feralmoan 13y agoDefinitely a lot of overhead keeping sockets alive for this when deltas must be few+far between. Wonder why they eschewed mqtt or rest... ? I imagine a lot of integrators are going WTF to a Firebase approach for a thermostat.
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- joeblau 13y agoI think it's a pretty good choice. I've been using it for almost a year and a half and I visited their office when they were 4 people. It really makes sense for a real-time system if you don't want to build your own real-time message bus.