[rdtsc]

The "other thing" for us is is RPC and PUB/SUB patterns over sockjs (which wraps Websockets+fallbacks).

REST is a tool. But given an engineer a tool like a hammer and pretty soon everything will look like a nail. Sometimes you need a screwdriver when you actually have screws. Hammering them in will work but it is ugly.

[krober]

Yeah I considered PUB/SUB as another alternative, and it makes sense to use it for realtime applications, but I'm not sure what else (due to my ignorance, not necessarily PUB/SUB limitations). As for RPC, isn't SOAP the successor to that?