Ribbit and the Edge of the Network
January 29, 2008
Erik's wonderful post today jogged my memory about Ribbit and the edge of the network. In Erik's post, he's asked to describe the difference between his service, Lypp, and Ribbit, and gives his honest appraisal of the environment in which edge applications live:
The edge of the network is a nasty place. Bandwidth issues, carrier packet shaping, lack of end user control and costly redundancy solutions make it nearly impossible to deliver a predictable and reliable telephony service.
Ribbit's API is an Adobe Flex API, which at first gave me pause, but upon reflection, I like. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are the future of desktop applications, and although there are still many choices for which technology will win (Flex, Ajax, etc), there's no doubt it's going to be one of them. Given that, there are lots of programmers who will know and understand this programming approach - good to see they now have an option...
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