PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Changelog Interviews #37)

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!