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Damien Tanner, Pusher
This document discusses real-time APIs and why they are important for building real-time applications. It explains that real-time APIs allow developers to build apps that can process data in real-time, send push notifications, and provide fully real-time experiences for users. The document outlines different generations of real-time technologies including pubsubhubbub, HTTP streaming, and emerging bi-directional socket APIs enabled by HTML5 WebSockets. It encourages data providers to release real-time access to their data to enable further innovation by developers.
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- 1. Realtime APIs What you need to know, and why. Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 2. Who am I? • Damien Tanner - @dctanner • Co-founder of 3 companies • Most recently: Pusher - Realtime messaging platform. • Used by global agencies, startups and enterprises to power the next gen of realtime apps Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 3. Why realtime? Thursday, October27, 2011
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- 7. Realtime APIs let developers build realtime apps Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 8. Realtime data processing Thursday,October 27, 2011
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- 10. Fully realtime nextgen apps Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 11. Realtime APIs today • One company leads the way: • Twitter streaming API • Instagram 'realtime' web hooks API • ... many more in the works I'm sure... Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 12. The enabling technology Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 13. 1st gen Pubsubhubub • HTTP REST based • Tell provider you want to be pinged every time new content is published • Best for low frequency • Popular with blogging and content services Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 14. 2nd gen HTTP Streaming • Twitter required more • HTTP Streaming is a one way fire hose • Efficient and fairly easy to implement Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 15. Next gen Bi-directional socket APIs • Efficient socket allows both subscription control and data push/streaming • Next year I predict we will see the first examples • Why now...? Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 16. HTML5 WebSockets • Now browsers can make bi-directional socket connections. • We can push data to browsers • This tech will also be applied to sever comms and APIs Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 17. Release your realtimedata and let the developer community create Thursday, October 27, 2011
- 18. Thanks! Want to know more? damien@tanner.me @dctanner pusher.com Learn more about Websockets and the future of the web Thursday, October 27, 2011