PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Interview)

Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Show Notes: Superfeedr - pushes realtime data at scale using PubSubHubBub and XMPP. PubSubHubHub - simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS. XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication and generalized routing of XML data. Discovery links in feeds Superfeeder has some big names among its publishers and subscribers Gowalla demo using websockets and Gowalla’s hub. Twitter’s streaming APIs Considerations for PubSubHubBub vs. XMPP Superfeedr’s GitHub profile EventMachine and Node.js are cool Julien loves Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB Superfeedr’s list of popular feeds, firehose of the blogosphere Redis’ as a pubsub store Chef from Opscode is serious cool for setting up servers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!