Re:Facebook is closing Parse
by Spearchucker on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:38AM
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Had a look at the link and struggling to understand the concept of streams.
A primary benefit of sync is store-and-forward, i.e. I could be offline, change a customer record, and when I reconnect it syncs to those who need it via a server.
In the streams model, how does the server know which stream messages to send to a client that's been offline for a week, if not via sync?
Also, messages. Does a message equate to, say, a customer record? I read that a message is a record of an event that happened to something?
What if everything was built around streams that multiple people could read and write to and each stream would have a server that would be the authority on which operation done in which order?
I think that's a more flexible system that can include sync, but also other things.
That's what I've spent years building, and I'm hoping to make it also a completely distributed solution that works across domains:
http://qbix.com/platform/guide/messages