We're constantly flooded with data in our businesses and everyday lives; real-time applications help us make use of this fire hose of data by allowing us to visualize and respond to events as they occur. Join us as we explore how to build a real-time Canvas application, running on Heroku, that integrates with Salesforce via the Force.com Streaming API to process and visualize streams of live data.

1. The Real-time World with Canvas,
Heroku, Node.js, and Force.com
Streaming
Kevin O’Hara, LevelEleven, CTO
@kevino80
Shoby Abdi, 7Summits Agency, Senior Director
@shobyabdi

2. Kevin O’Hara
CTO, LevelEleven
@kevino80

3. Shoby Abdi
Senior Director, 7Summits Agency
@shobyabdi

4. Objective
• Learn about what Real-time is
• Take a look at some Real-time technologies
• See a demo showing how you can leverage Real-time
• Q/A

5. Circa 19921995
The Olden Days
Request
Response

6. A Little Less “Olden Days”
Request
Response
Circa 19961998

7. Circa 19982005
Fairly Recent Years
Request
Response
Request
Response

8. Present Day

9. Mo Data, Mo Problems
Yeah….not gonna cut it

10. Mo Data, Mo Problems
Because I need all of this too…

11. And this stuff is happening now…
How do I keep up?

12. The Answer?
Maybe 5 years ago…

13. The Answer?
But that’s not Real-time!

14. What is Real-time?

15. What is Real-time Not?

16. Not This

17. Not This

18. It’s This

19. Node.js

20. Web Sockets

21. Socket.io

22. Heroku Labs Technology: WebSockets
Server
Client

23. Node.js and Socket.io (or WebSockets)

24. Streaming API

25. Canvas

26. Google Maps + Twitter Streaming API

28. Demo Time!

29. In Summary
nforce
https://github.com/kevinohara80/nforce
Heroku Labs Websockets
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-labs-websockets
socket.io
http://socket.io
Force.com canvas
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Force.com_Canvas

30. Kevin O’Hara
Shoby Abdi
CTO
@kevino80
Senior Director
@shobyabdi