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I've never dealt with Comet. I need the long detailed answer for complete noobs.

• jacobolus 14y ago
  The old version of that wikipedia article had a bit more background explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comet_%28programming%29&oldid=215165715 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comet_%28programmi...
  • kevinfat 14y ago
    If I am understanding correctly the suggestion is to have a distributed hash table that any backend can lookup to find the other backend it should forward to. And since the distributed hash table is critically important persistent data I'm assuming that using something like Memcached is not a good idea? What would be advisable instead?