Glenn Block Explains Socket.IO Scale-Out on Service Bus

"Internet of Things" is one of the hot catchphrases of the industry these days. It's about connecting special-purpose devices (laundry machines, dishwashers, toasters, locomotives, trucks, factory robots, etc.) directly or indirectly to the Internet. As things go, several commercial customers have nudged us in the direction of taking a good, long look at this space and we're already actively helping several of them to deal with the particular scale challenges of needing to connect tens of thousands or more devices concurrently and with bi-directional information exchange.
This is the first in a series of episodes I'll do on the IoT/M2M subject area here on "Subscribe!" and in this first one, I'm introducing the problem space, talk about patterns, and am talking about the connectivity options and challenges around devices, specifically also discussing VPN.
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Something is odd with this video. It says buffering at 9 seconds in and freezes. I managed to get to 21 seconds before buffering and freezing when signing into C9 while at the 9 second freeze state.
Edit: Odd. after posting this comment it resumed playing.
Freezing in the beginning
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Very punny, @joshnock
Great stuff... Loving..
Another good example would be the Smart Meters in the utility sector