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defen on Dec 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: EtherPad Open Source Release

Anyone feel like digging into the code and doing a writeup about the "secret sauce" - how they managed to make the real time stuff so responsive?

alnayyir on Dec 18, 2009 [–]

non-blocking Event I/O, server-side + client-side JS.

Cf. node.js for infrastructural style (but with Scala in Etherpad's case)

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