FeedSync: Synchronizing the Mesh

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Apr 25th, 2008 @ 9:30 AM | 22,594 Views | 17 Comments
Synch is one of those things that sounds much, much, much simpler than it actually is Wink  Live Mesh is built with synchronization as a core primitive – every object in the system is synch-enabled, and cloud and client runtimes manage the notification and synchronization process.  We sat down with Steven Lees, designer of the FeedSync protocol, and Steve Garrity, Akash Sagar and Vlad Fedorov from the Live Platform Services team, for a detailed review of how synch works in the Live Mesh platform and experience.

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#Apr 25th, 2008 @ 10:25 AM
DCMonkey
DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!
Um, it's playing a "This Week" video.
#Apr 25th, 2008 @ 10:50 AM
wkempf
wkempf
DCMonkey wrote:
Um, it's playing a "This Week" video.


It's on there if you have patience.

Edit: Never mind, it's not there.  Just related Mesh talk from the "This Week" video.
#Apr 25th, 2008 @ 11:19 AM
DCMonkey
DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!
wkempf wrote:

DCMonkey wrote: Um, it's playing a "This Week" video.


It's on there if you have patience.

Edit: Never mind, it's not there.  Just related Mesh talk from the "This Week" video.


The links in the story itself are correct though.

Interesting stuff.

#Apr 25th, 2008 @ 11:29 AM
DCMonkey
DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!
Understanding that they aren't in this tech preview release, are the features like Remote Differential Compression and
the torrent style blob transfer planned for the actual v1 release?
#Apr 25th, 2008 @ 11:56 AM
Dan
Dan
DCMonkey wrote:
Um, it's playing a "This Week" video.


My error, the streaming and large download links were pointing to the wrong video...copy/paste bug in-between two browser tabs when posting, sorry!
#Apr 25th, 2008 @ 5:20 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Thanks folks.

I think this would work great for banking downloads and transfers.  Client could be running in the background, and your bank/CC transactions would always be in-sync when you start MS Money or OA.  This this would be easier for banks to implement. Will be some security proof time required.

#Apr 26th, 2008 @ 1:36 AM
davida242
davida242
Dan wrote:

DCMonkey wrote: Um, it's playing a "This Week" video.


My error, the streaming and large download links were pointing to the wrong video...copy/paste bug in-between two browser tabs when posting, sorry!


So, are you going to fix the link? Smiley The download link is still wrong.

Cheers,
David
#Apr 26th, 2008 @ 6:31 AM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...
A C9 mesh would seem to be a perfect app to "meshify".  Make posts local (using rich wcf app and *editor) and the post is synced to cloud.  The vids can stay http links or checked for download.  Blogs in general would seem to be a good fit.  Could this be start of a new blog ecosystem?
#Apr 26th, 2008 @ 8:21 AM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...
hmm.  This would also be a way to reinvent DNS with private roots and dynamic by nature.  Naturally, also a way to reinvent NNTP as it is very NNTP like but with N+ local "servers".  Microsoft ngs and forums could standardize on one storage - mesh.  Then clients could be NG based or web (i.e. forum) based.  I need the API so I can start working Smiley
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