How to show continuous real time updates like facebook ticker, meetup.com home page does?

Asked 2012-07-27T13:08:46.357

How to show continuous real time updates in browser like facebook ticker, meetup.com home page does? In python, PHP, node.js and what would be the performance impact at the server side ? Also how could we achieve the same update thing if the page is cached by an CDN like akamai?

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Jetty

Ajax Push Engine

Socket.io

These are ways to implement Comet

I would recommend Socket.io, which is implemented with Node.js

because It leverages to use best available connection method

answered 2012-07-27T13:12:32.470

How to show continuous real time updates like facebook ticker, meetup.com home page does?

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