Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
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The document discusses how REST works well for everyday problems but breaks down at scale for large social websites with rich APIs and low latency requirements. It introduces XMPP PubSub as an alternative to REST that may be better suited to building large, real-time data services by providing lower latency, flexibility for social network effects, and pub/sub capabilities beyond REST's request/response model. The authors are excited about XMPP PubSub but are not experts, and their specialty is constructing big social sites rather than instant messaging or chat applications.
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
- 1. Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP PubSub Evan Henshaw-Plath, ENTP.com Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Flickr.com
- 2. We build websites. we¡¯re not XMPP experts, specialty is building really large social sites, rich APIs, Web 2.0 stu! we¡¯re Jabber outsider, and this talk is about why we¡¯re excited about XMPP.
- 3. No XEP overload no xep overload. and we aren¡¯t here to talk about instant messaging, or chat either.
- 4. Beyond REST, the game has changed. we¡¯re huge fans of RESTful APIs. REST won. Its great. We love it. but recently the game has changed. we¡¯re building bigger websites, the latency is lower, the social network eects are huge, and more.