Faking Real Time: Optimistic Updates & Eventual Consistency (Decompress 2015)

A talk I gave at Decompress 2015 about making CSSConf Racer, a real time, multiplayer racing game: http://cssconfracer.com

CSSConf Racer was built with Flux, Firebase, React & react-router.

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1. Faking Real Time Optimistic Updates & Eventual Consistency
10. cssconfracer.com
11. cssconfracer.com
15. setUsername(“jim”)
16. { type: SET_USERNAME, username: “jim” }
17. UserStore: CHANGE event triggered
20. Real time on the internet is hard.
24. You don’t always need confirmation before updating the UI
29. Eventual Consistency
31. CQRS Command Query Responsibility Segregation
37. How to fake real time Hide network effects from the user Optimistically update the UI Embrace eventual consistency
38. The First Annual Decompress Grand Prix Go to cssconfracer.com now
39. Thanks! @bensmithett https://github.com/bensmithett/cssconfracer Screen by iconoci http://thenounproject.com/term/screen/82256/ Database by Stefan Parnarov http://thenounproject.com/term/database/29365/ Phone by Joris Hoogendoorn http://thenounproject.com/term/phone/42970/ Cloud by Jan-Christoph Borchardt http://thenounproject.com/term/cloud/932/ CQRS by Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html http://cssconfracer.com