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Talks: Comet: Moving towards a real-time web

The Highland Fling 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3rd April 2008

The Ajax revolution has increased user expectations for web application interactivity, and resulted in a growing demand for real-time information.

Comet is an umbrella term for a set of techniques that enable live updates of web pages as soon as a significant event occurs. On the server-side, a different set of technologies is needed to handle the challenges of event-driven applications.

Presented on 3rd April 2008

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