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Re:Spire.io: A New Platform For Serverless Apps That Work On... by dyoder on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @01:58PM (#3949735)
Also, you can implement data synchronization over a messaging layer but not the other way around. So I'd say our approach is actually more flexible. And we do plan to introduce APIs to make data synchronization easier.
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Re:Spire.io: A New Platform For Serverless Apps That Work On... by equark on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @03:42PM (#3950135)
Implementing the Firebase API is nontrivial. It's an entire datastore with fine-grained monitoring and optimistic, distributed, data synchronization. Messaging falls automatically out of their API -- all you do is push child messages. And it's better messaging protocol than pub/sub since you get windowed queries into the channel history for free.
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Re:Spire.io: A New Platform For Serverless Apps That Work On... by dyoder on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @04:05PM (#3950220)
You get 'windowed queries into the channel history for free' on spire.io as well.
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