Google going real real-time

There's a log of talk about the real-time web these days, but most of it is talking about stuff that isn't really real-time at all. Most of it just means when you access the data it is up to date, or ...Read More

Benchmarking Liberator to 100,000 users

As I mentioned on my previous blog - Comet Servers for a Single-Dealer Platform (SDP) I am performing some new benchmarks for Liberator. These are going to focus on some new things as well as some new figures for our ...Read More

HTML5 WebSocket Failure Rates

Some interesting information on WebSockets recently came to my attention. Greg Wilkins posted to the hybi mailing list about Websocket success rates and TLS extension which links to some original research done by Google employees here while ...Read More

Negative Latency – Breaking the Zero Barrier

Every second counts - or in financial markets, we're usually talking milliseconds or even microseconds. The faster you can get a price to a client the better. We have been very busy recently on R&D and are now ...Read More

Does Spelling Matter for the Real-time Web?

A few weeks ago a colleague sent through a link to this blog by Paddy Donnelly (warning, this link carries a parent advisory sticker) in which he expresses his frustration with web sites littered with spelling mistakes. I also find ...Read More

PubSubHubbub – the not quite real time web

There seems to be some confusion with some articles I have read about what PubSubHubbub (PuSH) does with regards to the real time web. This article should clear up some aspects of PubSubHubbub. PubSubHubbub is a protocol ...Read More

Why we don't need HTML5 WebSocket

I was going to blog about HTML5 WebSocket last week, but got side tracked. In the meantime, Greg Wilkins wrote an excellent piece covering some of what I wanted to say: http://blogs.webtide.com/gregw/entry/websocket_chat The idea of WebSocket is sound ...Read More

When were you when Tendulkar scored 200?

No, that title isn't a typo. Today, the little master, Sachin Tendulkar scored 200 runs in an ODI, the first time that has happened. That's cricket in case you were wondering. Cricket is played all round the world ...Read More

How real-time does real-time have to be?

This post was originally posted on my personal blog on 09/12/2009. Last night, just over 12 hours ago, I attended the Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It event organised by Sprouter in London. I’ve ...Read More