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2010

Twitter is turning itself from a social network into a gigantic tuple-space pubsub platform that just happens to have a big social network implemented on top of it.

Daniel Lucraft

# 17th April 2010, 5:23 pm / daniel-lucraft, twitter, pubsub, platform

Redis weekly update #3—Pub/Sub and more. Redis is now a publish/subscribe server—and it ended up only taking 150 lines of C code since Redis internals were already based on that paradigm.

# 30th March 2010, 3:15 pm / c, nosql, pubsub, redis

2009

pubsubhubbub. From Brad Fitzpatrick, a simple but clever way of using web hooks (HTTP callbacks) to inform subscribers that an Atom feed has updated in almost real-time—solving the constant polling problem and making it easier for small sites to offer publish-subscribe APIs. Any Atom feed can delegate subscriber updates to a “hub” server. An example hub server implementation is provided running on App Engine.

# 20th April 2009, 6:49 pm / appengine, atom, brad-fitzpatrick, pubsub, pubsubhubbub, python, realtime, webhooks