Navigating Web Streams and Their APIs

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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