Low Latency Messaging for Mobile Apps – Or When HTTP and Push Messages Are Simply Not Enough

  • How does the Facebook Messenger app achieve phone-to-phone messaging latency in the order of milliseconds instead of seconds? It uses the MQTT protocol.

    In this session we look at the MQTT protocol developed by IBM and recently donated to open source Eclipse Foundation. Using this protocol your mobile apps can achieve secure, reliable two-way communication without killing your battery or wasting your precious bandwidth. And it’s open source!