How we built TryIon with BluetoothLE, Node.js, Websockets, and JSMpeg

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Thanks for the write up! Was very interesting to see of the use of jsmpeg.

As for why socket.io doesn't support binary, I'm guessing because it might be difficult to support that over some of the fallback transports. (That appears to be the reason in SockJS as well)

Who is your hosting provider? Did you see any ill-effects when you shared this with HN a few days ago?

We use DigitalOcean for hosting. We were pushing video to ~100 clients steadily for ~6 hours without many issues, but ~3AM EST we got DDOS'd and DigitalOcean disabled our streaming box for a few hours.

Our box actually wasn't disabled - just the network. We were getting hit with > 1 Gbps of bandwidth inbound. Prior to the DDoS, we were handling the traffic quite well with a single 1GB RAM box. At times we were pushing around 20MB/s outbound.

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