DAdanso·Oct 30, 2013Submission
Firehose - Build realtime Ruby web applications
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What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThis is a great write-up! We learned a lot of these lessons at Poll Everywhere for http://firehose.io/, which is basically an open source version of Pusher. We do things a few things differently though:
* We only have two transport layers: http and ws. We don't bother with a Flash polyfill.
* We start the connection via HTTP long polling and upgrade to WS if its (a) present in the client and (b) the network supports it. We've seen a lot of firewalls kill WS connections, so long polling always works.
* We treat our "push" channels more like a push edge cache. Because of flakey connections you want to hang on to the past 50-100 messages published to a channel so that flakey clients can get messages if their connection drops.
Source code is up at https://github.com/polleverywhere/firehose and you can install it as a gem and have it running i
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I'm happy to answer questions on here if anybody's got them about building a realtime transport layer like Pusher & Firehose!