What you need to know, and why.Realtime APIs

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Who am I?• Damien Tanner - @dctanner

• Co-founder of 3 companies

• Most recently: Pusher - Realtime messaging platform.

• Used by global agencies, startups and enterprises to power the next gen of realtime apps

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Why realtime?

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Speed

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Push

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Engagement

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Realtime APIs let developers build

realtime apps

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Realtime data processing

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Push notifications

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Fully realtime next gen apps

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Realtime APIs today

• One company leads the way:

• Twitter streaming API

• Instagram 'realtime' web hooks API

• ... many more in the works I'm sure...

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The enabling technology

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1st genPubsubhubub

• HTTP REST based

• Tell provider you want to be pinged every time new content is published

• Best for low frequency

• Popular with blogging and content services

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2nd genHTTP Streaming

• Twitter required more

• HTTP Streaming is a one way fire hose

• Efficient and fairly easy to implement

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Next genBi-directional socket APIs

• Efficient socket allows both subscription control and data push/streaming

• Next year I predict we will see the first examples

• Why now...?

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HTML5 WebSockets

• Now browsers can make bi-directional socket connections.

• We can push data to browsers

• This tech will also be applied to sever comms and APIs

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and let the developer community create

Release your realtime data

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Thanks!Want to know more?

damien@tanner.me@dctanner

pusher.comLearn more about Websockets

and the future of the web

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