Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by sirstompsalot » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 9:36 PM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #10

sirstompsalot wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly (without reading too much about it) can I use InfluxDb instead of RethinkDb? (Disclaimer: I'm a RethinkDB fanboy, but I'd like to know my options.)

InfluxDB is a time series database (think reporting/analysis of collected system metrics). It's not intended as a general purpose database.

No, its definitely not. However, I can think of a few instances where I might use it along with Deepstream.

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by spleeder » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 9:57 PM UTC

wolframhempel wrote: post #18

dvliman wrote: post #16

Is there a documentation of transport protocol? i.e http sse, websocket? ...peeking the source code a little bit - tcp-socket?

Deepstream is using a TcpPort to allow for connections from other Node-processes (and hopefully, going forward Java, C++ etc..) and engine.io for browser communication. Engine.io initially connects using long-polling http and upgrades to Websocket if available. A (rudimentary) overview of the message structure can be found here: http://deepstream.io/tutorials/message-structure.html

Why go through the trouble and reinvent the wheel and not use one of the available protocols and serialization methods?

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by yc1010 » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:17 PM UTC

Does anyone know with what these style of websites are made with? there must be hundreds of .io sites here on HN that look and feel the same

I am not a designer so do not know what this latest web design practice is called

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by applepple » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:45 PM UTC

This looks similar to SC http://socketcluster.io/ - But I guess SC doesn't take care of the storage layer - You can use your own database of choice.

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by Hortinstein » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

yc1010 wrote: post #23

Does anyone know with what these style of websites are made with? there must be hundreds of .io sites here on HN that look and feel the same I am not a designer so do not know what this latest web design practice is called

I would love to know this too. This one is exceptionally well designed, here is a site with some landing page templates that have some similar design themes: http://html5up.net/

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by tfb » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

yc1010 wrote: post #23

Does anyone know with what these style of websites are made with? there must be hundreds of .io sites here on HN that look and feel the same I am not a designer so do not know what this latest web design practice is called

Most that you've seen are probably using bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com). Though the only indication of bootstrap I'm seeing within this particular site is font-awesome loaded from the bootstrap cdn.

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by nathancahill » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

yc1010 wrote: post #23

Does anyone know with what these style of websites are made with? there must be hundreds of .io sites here on HN that look and feel the same I am not a designer so do not know what this latest web design practice is called

I've used the Startup Framework Generator[1] for building this style of website. Highly recommended.

[1] http://designmodo.com/generator/

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by Mahn » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 11:44 PM UTC

yc1010 wrote: post #23

Does anyone know with what these style of websites are made with? there must be hundreds of .io sites here on HN that look and feel the same I am not a designer so do not know what this latest web design practice is called

I think it's more a design trend than a magical tool that creates sites like these. Look up flat, metro and material design if you are looking for a name.

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by ollysb » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 11:52 PM UTC

yasserf wrote: post #5

nbrempel wrote: post #2

I'm very excited about this! Without reading too much into this, is it safe to say it's like a self-hosted firebase? "Due to the way deepstream structures its data (JSON blobs, identified by a primary key) it is recommendable to use an Object oriented or schema-less database (e.g. MongoDB or RethinkDB), rather than a relational database like MySQL." Is there a way to run complex queries against the data or it designe…

Yup,the data is still queryable.here's an article on the subject http://deepstream.io/tutorials/searching-and-querying.html

One of the major limitations of firebase is that it's not possible to filter results by permissions. Is this something that deepstream can do?

Re: Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps

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Post by imslavko » Fri, Jun 12, 2015, 1:47 AM UTC

I looked at the source code and it seems that it mostly glues socket.io with Redis/Memcached. What did I miss? How exactly is it more scalable than anything else?

The front-page looks really cool.