Socket.io & nodejs: at a medium pace
In my last blog entry, I shared some nodejs-code to read CouchDB’s _changes feed and publish the data to a website. In order to update the page in a continous fashion, I used socket.io which provides a nifty abstraction across server- to client-side transports — for example, websockets and ajax longpoll. Full-throttle When we tested the code for a few days over the weekend, the largest issue we ran into was that the stream moved too fast....