http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/06/google-waves-mixes-in-realtime/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:04:58 -0800 hourly 1 http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/06/google-waves-mixes-in-realtime/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Adam Wolff Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:41:57 +0000 http://www.ultrasaurus.com/?p=1434#comment-715 Obviously, we've been watching Wave closely. I wonder if a protocol is still a meaningful standard. Our thinking is that the key to this magic is the data-store, rather than some tricky wire protocol. If you have a highly-concurrent, change-aware database (like <a href="http://couchdb.apache.org/" rel="nofollow">CouchDB</a>) the protocol and the data store can be the same thing: JSON+HTTP. Obviously, we’ve been watching Wave closely. I wonder if a protocol is still a meaningful standard. Our thinking is that the key to this magic is the data-store, rather than some tricky wire protocol. If you have a highly-concurrent, change-aware database (like CouchDB) the protocol and the data store can be the same thing: JSON+HTTP.

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