STREST is a new open source protocol and server from Wiredset, the company behind the real-time social media analytics service Trendrr. STREST is HTTP-compatible and is designed for real-time data streaming. Wiredset has released the protocol spec, a server implementation and drivers in Java, Python and JavaScript.
Wiredset created the protocol to deal with the challenges it faced when building the Trendr API. The team needed a way to offer extremely high-volume API calls with low latency, deliver the results in real-time at scale, and do so through a RESTful interface.
STREST features:
- Fully duplexed streaming connections
- Support for multiple simultaneous streams on a single connection
- Websockets support out of the box
- HTTP Compatibility
In short: you can use this to power a pretty massive API. Anyone know of anything else like this?
