PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Interview)

Oct 5, 2010

30:26

Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.

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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