Reject.js: The Future is Realtime

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1. Micheil Smith - @miksago The future is realtime Wednesday, 12

   October 2011

2. I work at Pusher BUILDING THE REALTIME WEB Wednesday, 12

   October 2011

3. • Overview of the past • The realtime shift •

   Future thinking Wednesday, 12 October 2011

4. • Overview of the past • The realtime shift •

   Future thinking Wednesday, 12 October 2011

5. • Early web • PHP / LAMP Stack • MVC

   / Social Web Overview of the past Wednesday, 12 October 2011 To paraphrase Mikeal Roger’s recent blog post, which came out just after I’d submitted my talk proposal on monday: - Early web: everything static, edited by hand / desktop software, - PHP / Simplistic Stack: some user interaction with content, some database access, etc - MVC / Social Web: massive shift towards user generated content, loads of database access, the take off of AJAX, etc.

6. • Overview of the past • A Shift to Realtime

   • Future thinking Wednesday, 12 October 2011

7. A shift to Realtime • The web has become more

   interactive • Users expect things to be “now” • And why should they have to wait? Wednesday, 12 October 2011

8. • We researched page-load time • We used AJAX to

   decrease wait-time on interactions • We then tried to simulate “realtime” with AJAX and related technologies A shift to Realtime Wednesday, 12 October 2011

9. The Tried Simulations • HTTP Polling • LiveConnect • Forever

   iFrame • XHR Long-polling • XHR Streaming Wednesday, 12 October 2011 - I don’t know too much about these.

10. A more complete history http://blog.pusher.com/2011/8/10/what- came-before-websockets Wednesday, 12 October 2011

11. The realtime shift • HTML5 Introduces many new API’s •

    One of those is WebSockets, which addresses the need for low-latency bi-directional communication Wednesday, 12 October 2011

12. A few examples of the realtime web Wednesday, 12 October

    2011

13. Gaming Rawkets Metris Wednesday, 12 October 2011

14. Realtime Analytics Guag.es Wednesday, 12 October 2011

15. Collaborative Editing Codr.cc Google Docs Wednesday, 12 October 2011

16. There’s a heap more... Wednesday, 12 October 2011

17. ...and some uses that we haven’t thought of yet. Wednesday,

    12 October 2011

18. Questions? Wednesday, 12 October 2011

19. Thanks for listening! @miksago on Twitter / Github / Geekli.st

    Wednesday, 12 October 2011