A meteor is the visible event that occurs when a meteoroid or asteroid enters the earth's atmosphere
and becomes brightly visible (thanks to Garth for correcting me on this!).
Our Meteor an implementation of a technique called Comet for using the HTTP protocol for persistent streaming data connections.
The term 'Comet' was coined by Alex Russell in his post 'Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser'.
In fact, this technology has been around for ages, it's just difficult to implement well.
Like AJAX before it, 'comet' only really became cool once someone gave it a name and showed the world in simple terms how it works.
The main problem to be solved is one of scalability - most web servers are not designed to handle requests that take minutes
or even hours to complete a response, and their threaded architectures collapse at the first sign of more than a few hundred simultaneously connected clients.
and becomes brightly visible (thanks to Garth for correcting me on this!).
Our Meteor an implementation of a technique called Comet for using the HTTP protocol for persistent streaming data connections.
The term 'Comet' was coined by Alex Russell in his post 'Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser'.
In fact, this technology has been around for ages, it's just difficult to implement well.
Like AJAX before it, 'comet' only really became cool once someone gave it a name and showed the world in simple terms how it works.
The main problem to be solved is one of scalability - most web servers are not designed to handle requests that take minutes
or even hours to complete a response, and their threaded architectures collapse at the first sign of more than a few hundred simultaneously connected clients.