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Great write up. Hopefully that ephemeral data in Redis can scale.

They could have used something like Pusher for about half of their implementation (the websockets, message pushing, polling, etc)

I bring this up because I built an OSS Pusher clone[1], for those people that want to deploy their own, built on the Play! framework.

[1] https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay



There's also this ruby implementation that plays nice with all the pusher libs https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger


Yes, I built my version almost in tandem with Steve. Pusher hosts their js lib on github under the MIT license which made building these things supremely easy.




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