Thanks for the wonderfully detailed response Stephen, but I hope you can answer one last question.
I understand your point about Socket.io being a higher-level interface, but I am still struggling to understand a good use case for using Socket.IO with PubNub. Perhaps I am being a bit thick. Could you give me an example or two of where there is a good fit for Socket.IO and PubNub as opposed to just PubNub on its own? Matt On 3 Jul 2012, at 05:20, Stephen Blum wrote: > Hi Mathew! > > You are welcome for the response. I am happy to answer more questions. > Cross Platform AES Symmetric Key Cryptography - Read Blog Article > Basically Full Round-trip Cryptography of Data (Beyond SSL) - Though your > data is encrypted as it travels through the Internet, it must be decrypted > (and re-encrypted) as it passes through the PubNub servers and back out > again. This is not a limitation of PubNub, but simply a limitation of the way > SSL works. > In regards to the Send/Receive permissions: Exclude the PUBLISH KEY in order > to prevent sending of data. > SHA256/HMAC Message Origin Signing > This happens automatically when you include the SECRET KEY. > Reliability - Globally Distributed. > We operate in 10 Discrete Physical Locations (different buildings). > The most recent EC2 outage on the East Coast was mitigated and customers were > routed to the healthy data centers. > Socket.IO + PubNub > PubNub is a Cloud Messaging Service (Send/Receive) > Socket.IO is a higher-level interface that provides extra functionality on > top of a Message Bus like PubNub. > You can think of Socket.IO like a jQuery type library that sits on top of the > base infrastructure. > Locksetp Synchronization with Everyone on Earth. > This means that data is replicated quickly to all devices. For example if a > Sport Score was updated while a game was in progress, this update would be > sent as a PubNub message and all phones would be updated at the same time; > all people would see the score update at the same time. > This type of application is perfect with PubNub Galaxy, our Mass Fan-out > service: http://www.pubnub.com/solutions/pubnub-galaxy > Glad to be of assistance! Note that this thread takes us a while to check > for updates. If you want a bit faster response you can send messages to > [email protected] :-) -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
