PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!