Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

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1. Slide 1:Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP PubSub Evan Henshaw-Plath, ENTP.com Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Flickr.com
2. Slide 2: We build websites. we’re not XMPP experts, specialty is building really large social sites, rich APIs, Web 2.0 stu! we’re Jabber outsider, and this talk is about why we’re excited about XMPP.
3. Slide 3: No XEP overload no xep overload. and we aren’t here to talk about instant messaging, or chat either.
4. Slide 4: Beyond REST, the game has changed. we’re huge fans of RESTful APIs. REST won. Its great. We love it. but recently the game has changed. we’re building bigger websites, the latency is lower, the social network eects are huge, and more.
5. Slide 5: REST is Newtonian physics. Its like REST is Newtonian physics. For