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What exactly is a "real-time" web framework? Is that anything like being "web scale"?
by pimlottc 12y ago
What exactly is a "real-time" web framework? Is that anything like being "web scale"?
- kraih 12y agoNot at all, it's a "real thing", the Wikipedia article might be of help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web
- lumpypua 12y agoA framework that can natively communicate with a browser via mechanisms like Comet or WebSockets. An example is when a new message is posted to an inbox on the server, and your browser immediately updates the message count without polling. Non-realtime frameworks often have to resort to communicating with websockets over something like zeromq.
- agilityfeat 12y agoAnything that allows two browsers to communicate directly with each other without the user intervening can be called a real-time web framework. Examples include WebSockets, the WebRTC DataChannel, publish/subscribe networks, paid services like PubNub or Kaazing, etc.