All good points, and I agree. In the book, I spend a lot of time talking about technologies that aren't HTTP. I was just responding to the points about HTTP (above).

Well said. That's exactly what I'm trying to do with this book (I wrote it). This is a very practical book in that you should be able to start implementing these technologies at scale in any modern browser and working with your apps existing ecosystem.

While I would have loved to put in a chapter on web sockets, It wasn't practical in terms of time or practicality. However, the 2nd edition (fingers crossed) will definitely cover it.

-Ted

Hi, I'm the author (of the book, not the review). I totally agree with you sentiment. I spend some time in the book (and to whoever will listen) that you shouldn't just dump more and more stuff in front of the user, you have to be smart about it.

Hi, Ted Roden here, author of this book.

I definitely spend a lot of time talking about that issue in the book.The reviewer (understandably) didn't write about all of the pros/cons and content in the book.

I talk about how many servers (apache) are really bad at keeping these types of connections open and suggest using servers that were specifically designed for this (tornado). I also spend a while talking about how to get them all working together so you don't have to rearchitect everything just to get something set up.

-Ted