RethinkDB CEO Slava Akhmechet attributes the rise of this scalable JSON database, used by more than 100,000 developers worldwide, to the shift to real-time web applications, for which it has been ...

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The way we interact with web applications is evolving rapidly, and real-time communication is at the heart of this transformation. In an era where instant messaging, live streaming, and collaborative ...

RethinkDB is an open source database for the real-time Web. It has a built-in change notification system that streams live updates to your application. Instead of polling for new data, you can have ...

Regardless of the benefits that cloud computing can bring to your production environments, a key to delivering applications to your end-users is assuring that the applications are performing the way ...

Microsoft is previewing a new Azure Web PubSub service used to create real-time applications based on WebSockets communication tech. Because WebSockets allows for full-duplex communication channels ...

Looking to advance a real-time Web paradigm, Weelya unveiled earlier this month its APE (Ajax Push Engine) 1.0, an open source technology promoting the pushing of data onto Web pages as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jessica Stryczek reaches for her iPhone every morning, even before she gets out of bed. It is her lifeline to the world — an uber alarm clock/CD player/e-mail device/game ...