Hookbox is a new Python-based comet server with support for Websockets. It’s main features include: Support for named channels on which data is published/subscribed. Server-side Websocket and WSGI support via the eventlet concurrent networking library. Client-side Websocket support via js.io. Fall-back to a custom comet protocol when websocket support is not available in the browser. [...]
Tag Archive : real-time
Average vs. Worst-case stats
As a result, the “average” is a very misleading indicator of performance when the number of samples is large. You can thank the Law of Large Numbers for this behavior.
Google Wave is a …
… real-time comment system. This tweet made me laugh and the it made me realize that the walled nature of Wave means that it can’t be successful as an email system but it may well find a second life-line as a website comment system. People discuss ideas using natural conversations. But today’s comment systems essentially resemble [...]