#Message Passing vs. Data Synchronization

• Name : Anant Narayanan
• Twitter : @anantn
• Github : anantn
• Website : kix.in

##Abstract

The words "real-time" usually conjure up images of "message-passing" in developer's minds - but it doesn't have to be that way.

Message passing systems have been the de-facto way of doing real-time on the web, but new technologies like Firebase and Meteor treat it as a data synchronization problem. All apps had to have persistence for some of their data anyway, so by combining persistence and message passing into one problem instead of two, real-time apps are vastly easier to build and within the reach of everyone.

In this talk we'll go into the nitty gritty of building a real-time web app and understanding what the advantages of the data synchronization approach over message passing are.

##Speaker Bio

I'm a longtime JS hacker and a fan of the web!

I worked at Mozilla Labs on a wide range of projects like Firefox Sync, the Add-On SDK, Open Web Apps and Firefox OS. I also represented Mozilla at the W3C and IETF, and most recently worked on defining and implementing a suite of JS APIs for real-time communication on the web (also known as WebRTC).

I currently work at Firebase, which provides an easy-to-use JS library for data synchronization, aimed primarily at developers writing real-time apps.