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by smharris65 5264 days ago
Performance is really good. How much processing is server-side vs client-side?
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I'm a bit (very) new to programming so I'm not sure how to quantify this answer but:

- Majority of processing done in the browser using jQuery and Javascript -- Ensures my server doesn't get banned/throttled for too many requests to each of the services. -- Also means the data is 'as live as possible' as there is no caching in either the client or the server

- Some processing is done server-side -- Acts as a proxy for some non-JSONP services -- General parsing/cleaning of feeds

- Services/APIs used where possible -- Twitter search service is used client side -- Viralheat Sentiment API is used client side -- YQL is used client side for some of the calls