London Hacker News meetup talk videos
skillsmatter.com
skillsmatter.com
Big thanks to the excellent Skills Matter for hosting this meetup and getting the video out so quickly. We've been overwhelmed by the interest in SocketStream and the number of people who've already started experimenting with real-time games, wikis, and more.
Unfortunately the video cuts off at a crucial point: The last slides talks about how we want to do testing and scaling differently, and in particular how SocketStream is still highly experimental and subject to a lot of change in the future as we learn more and refine our ideas.
After playing back the video I also want to clarify the reference to Gmail I made at the beginning. We have shown an early version of SocketStream and the websocket concept to an ex-Googler now at AOL who's been involved in many projects at Google, including Gmail.
He loves the idea and mentioned he would let the Gmail team know about it as the '100% websocket approach' potentially solves many of the problems they had wrestling with AJAX and long polling. We would certainly welcome their thoughts and contributions, along with everyone else's. We have some big problems to solve in this space and are the first to recognise we can't do it all alone.
So please go forth, have fun, and see what you can create. We are already hard at work on the next version which will include support for the new features in Socket.IO 0.7, plus a website for SocketStream containing full documentation and an 'live' API guide. Please follow @socketstream for other exciting developments coming soon.