From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-11-30T03:15:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Which server component?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> In that case it sounds like as if HTTP was not the ideal protocol for
> the task.  Maybe you should rather follow the other direction and think
> about a solution with EventMachine as Brian has sketched.

Another option is to use XMPP (aka Jabber). This is asynchronous and 
there are a variety of implementations to choose from. If you want 
something that scales to tens of thousands of connections, look at 
ejabberd. Even though that's written in erlang, you could still sit it 
in between a large pool of clients and a server written in ruby + 
xmpp4r.
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