Real-time Web Applications
by Bill Stavroulakis
At the end of this course you will have a concrete understanding of what real-time web applications are, which technologies are used to create these applications, and how to create them using HTML5 WebSockets.
What you'll learn
A large number of technologies and practices have attempted to tackle real-time demands to constantly update the browser. The new HTML5 WebSocket protocol promises bi-directional communication between the server and the client through a single TCP connection that removes a great load of header information and reduces latency. At the end of this course, you will be fully aware of the technologies needed to build real-time web applications and why HTML5 WebSockets offer us the opportunity to create unique web apps and enhance browser capabilities we had never had the chance to lay our hands on before.
About the author
Bill is a Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, a Senior Software
Engineer at Software Competitiveness International, and the creator of Dotnetweekly. He has over
7 years of experience in building Web Applications and is excited to learn
and teach technologies as they develop/mature in the ever-changing world of
the web. Bill started his career in Silicon Valley in 2006 developing
Facebook applications that grew to have more that 6 million users. He then
continued working on the Ruby-on-Rails ... moreframework and implemented a back-end
portal for a renowned educational institution in Greece. He co-founded a Web
Development/Internet Marketing Company that dealt with a wide range of the
web spectrum - such as deploying products in the areas of e-commerce,
entertainment, education, and publishing. Nowadays, he focuses on the .NET
platform and works at SoftCom-Int specializing in enterprise knowledge
management solutions. He is an active member of the .NET community
organizing events/contests/presentations and was awarded for his
contributions with the MVP award in 2013.