Around The Web

When I started the company at Superfeedr, I wanted to solve another problem with creators online. Since we are looking for another way to spread information more quickly on the web we have established a way to standardize information based on RSS, one of the pillars of the open network, and to promote the use of the PubSubHubbub protocol Did. Information on the Web (or WebSub, its successor) information. However, distributing information quickly is not enough. Over time, I saw the tension between the new silos, creators, platforms and users become a full battle. Obviously, things will never work out unless the system is synchronized with the needs of consumers and creators. The lack of a clear business model brings data and power concentration directly into the hands of several isolated islands.

About twenty years have passed since the creation of the network, and a Web browser continues as a means of accessing information on the Internet. At the time, both were basically the same. Perhaps the biggest change is the dynamic interaction of "network 0", which allows web applications to access the site. However, in recent years, "mobile", the success of smartphones and apps, the way users interact with information, the reasons for it, and the dynamics of time have changed. The giant of the desktop era is Yahoo!. Multifunctional portals such as AltaVista and MSN, the new mobile era giants are social and communication applications such as single-use messaging, Instagram, WhatsApp, SnapChat, Twitter etc.

Please enter GraphQL which is the technology written by Facebook. Facebook faces a major problem with the data pipeline of mobile applications. Their mobile app was formerly a web view wrapper, and as mobile applications become more complex, they have experienced performance problems and frequent crashes. Facebook turned to writing native applications and they discovered that a new API is needed to retrieve data from their native view. They evaluated REST and other options, but given the above problems they eventually got the opportunity to really make something new.