Cloud Pipe brings realtime to desktop and mobile clients
This is the last major piece of the rssCloud architecture, the only piece not specified in 2001.
With Cloud Pipe, it will be possible to flow realtime updates from the cloud to desktop and mobile devices, even if they are not “net-accessible,” that is, even if they are behind a firewall or NAT.
The technology here is not new, in fact the design is modeled after the realtime part of the FriendFeed API. I chose this approach because: 1. It’s known to work. 2. It’s easy to implement. 3. The server-side to scale. 4. Many other developers are familiar with it. 5. There aren’t many ways to solve this problem.
See rsscloud.org for a technical narrative and discussion.
