The exploding world of real-time data integration has led many to ask what technologies represent the best choice for their application architecture and how real-time data delivery platforms can help. There are several competing vendors – but not all are created equal. In this post, we’ll discuss the differences between Server-Sent Events and the WebSocket…
We have strong opinions here at Push on when REST APIs can be harmful to an app – namely how it can impact a system’s scale, throughput and performance. While REST APIs are tried and trusted for downloading web pages, most mobile and web app users are used to having information delivered to them proactively…
In 1967, Melvin Conway published a paper that asserted system design often reflected the communication structure of the organization building said system. This often meant that larger co-located teams developed monolithic systems, while smaller distributed teams built more loosely coupled systems. However, Conway also found that the initial design of any system was almost never…
One of the biggest questions when building an enterprise software solution is whether that solution is ready to go into production. When is enough testing enough? When have all the risks been mitigated? When are you ready? Diffusion is a powerful ingredient software, but it is only one part of a larger solution that can…
Application or enterprise architecture has become a fast moving world of late, with many voices talking loudly and often about technology choices, integration patterns, standards, etc. Yet throughout all this noise, one simple rule prevails – you must limit coupling between services, and especially between frontend apps and backend resources. Unfortunately, we often fail to…
Since my last post about Diffusion’s support for high availability (HA) we have made substantial changes to how we replicate data in our latest release, Diffusion 5.6. I’ve already written a little about session replication, topic replication and how we use Hazelcast so I will focus on updating you with the latest changes. We’ve done the…
Here at Push Technology, Java is at the heart of everything we do so we’re really interested in tools and technologies that improve our Java productivity. If you care about Java, you probably have some interest in Maven and how it can be used to facilitate better build and test of your code. (Yes, all…
A couple of weeks ago our London office went Raspberry Pi crazy. You can probably guess why. The MagPi magazine issue 40 came out with a free Raspberry Pi Zero on the cover and sold out within 24 hours. Almost all of us wanted to get our hands on one. At lunchtime search parties were…
Our development team put together some awesome blogs this year – ranging in topics from getting started with Diffusion Cloud and NodeJS, the introduction of the Reactive Data Layer, to blogs about dynamic pages with ClojureScript. Below is a list of the top five most popular blogs from our development team. Check them out! Almost…
Following the latest and greatest edition of API Days in Paris last week, it’s clear that interest and adoption of real-time is a mainstream objective for many developers and organizations. In both the business and technical tracks there were various presentations on real-time and event-driven architecture, where speakers discussed lessons learned and best practices for…