jjenkov

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by jjenkov 7y ago
A data streaming engine in C/C++ would be very interesting. We have started in Java, but there might be parts it would make sense to write in C++ . The challenge is not for others to write a data streaming engine to give to us. The cha
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by jjenkov 7y ago
Exactly ;-)
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by jjenkov 7y ago
I think you misunderstood. WE will implement this data streaming engine, and give it away as open source ! ... so WE get the bragging rights, you get the data streaming engine.
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by jjenkov 7y ago
What we mean by that rule (general purpose data streaming engine) is just, that the product must be usable for other use cases than just this challenge. You can write your own data streaming engine, but it should be able to handle a wide va
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by jjenkov 7y ago
Hi Varrakesh, the reason it is not "well specified" is, that all of your suggestions are interesting to try out and benchmark. Rather than saying "it has to be exactly like this" we have left it more open ended by saying
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by jjenkov 8y ago
The main differences of Boards compared to other web browsers will not really be clear until 1-2-3 releases from now. The current version just shows the core principles. Boards is not designed to replace a standard web browser, but to suppl
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by jjenkov 11y ago
That is coming... but browsers aren't supporting IAP (yet)!
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by jjenkov 11y ago
You are right, the term "self describing" as used in our docs could be more clear. Being self describing means that you do not need a schema to make sense of a stream of data of that format. However, there is also a degree to whic
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by jjenkov 11y ago
Yes, a guy told us that Amazon has an internal data format called ION. We googled for it, but didn't find it, so we assumed Amazon wants to keep it internal.
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by jjenkov 11y ago
Here is the Message Structure doc http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/iap-message-structure.html . We are not as far with the core IAP protocol as we are with ION, but we will get there. Designed-by-committee - really? You