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easiest way for push notifications

I wanted to implement real time push notification to one of the apps written in RoR. I don’t have any experience with nodejs, nowjs, express or socketio.

How much overhead is there in persistent connections?

Ok so I’m musing over a little side project I want to start. Essentially its a multi-session web based FTP client. Multi-session in that you can log into several FTP servers at the same time and perform operations like moving a file from one FTP server to another.

2 Servers 1 Database – Can I use Redis?

Ok I have a couple of questions here. First let me give you some background information. I’m starting a project where I have a node.js server running my application and my website running on another normal server. My application will allow multiple users simultaneous connections and updates to the database so Redis seemed like a good fit there because of its speed and atomic functions.

Optimization of a hybrid pagination scheme

I’m working on a Web Application using node.js in which I’m building a partial copy of the database on the client-side to decrease the load on my server. Right now, I have a function like this (expressed as python-style pseudocode, but implemented in JavaScript):