Understanding Web Streams

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain the what, why, and how of web streaming, and some of the jargon you might encounter with web streams.

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• 00:26:11 Welcome
• 00:59:07 Sponsor: Sentry
• 01:39:17 What are Web Streams?
• 03:15:11 Why are web streams picking up steam lately?
• 04:41:21 How are web streams streaming?
• 09:28:11 Searching a database can use streaming
• 13:07:11 Web stream jargon
• 18:06:11 FileReader is a Stream
• 19:31:05 Other Types of Streams
• Cloudlfare HTML Rewriter
• 21:50:05 ReadableStream and Writable Stream
• 27:23:00 Creating a Writable Stream
• 28:39:11 TextDecoderStream

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