DevHawk - The Last Mile of the Internet - 5 views
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August 27, 2009
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The Last Mile of the Internet
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NAT/Firewall issue makes any async messaging based approach useless for clients
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Polling sucks. We think a decentralized pubsub layer is a fundamental, missing layer in the Internet architecture today
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a fundamental design that looks like this: This picture leaves out multiple publishers and subscribers and the subscriber registration process, but you get the basic idea
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fine for server subscribers (like, say Google Reader) but not for client subscribers (like, say TweetDeck).
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the only way to enable client subscribers to play in this async messaging world is via some type of relay service
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In this approach, the client subscriber makes an outbound connection to some type of relay infrastructure
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technically feasible
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Yes, having to relay messages sucks. But the question is
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which sucks worse: polling or relaying?
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Harry Pierson
