Creating a Chat App in 15 Minutes with Angelo

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Claim: a working two‑way chat built in minutes using Angelo gem on top of Celluloid IO with Redis pub/sub and a tiny front end; demo deploys to Heroku deploy and actually runs. Implementation details: WebSockets with 30s ping to avoid router timeouts, fallback example using Server‑Sent Events (auto‑reconnect but IE incompatible), simple Sinatra‑style route builders, and a live demo that succeeds. Numbers: minimal Ruby files, reuse of existing JS front end, and a running demo shown on stage.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 7:02full duplex communication over a single TCP connection
3. 8:42design pattern for handling concurrent requests
4. 25:48Use Web Sockets for duplex communication

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