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Nginx Conf 2016 talk notes

Channels & Channel IDs

• Channel IDs explained in detail.
• A guide on keeping channels secure.
• Channel multiplexing

Publishers & Subscribers

• A conceptual overview of the 'simple example' provided.
  
• Detailed descriptions of publisher and subscriber, and the combination pubsub endpoints.
• The optional NchanSubscriber.js

Message Buffering

• The nchan_message_buffer_length setting.
• The nchan_message_timeout setting.
• The nchan_subscriber_first_message setting.

Application Interface

• Listening on a local address for the publisher location.
• Upstream authentication using nchan_authorize_request.
• Upstream message passing using nchan_publisher_upstream_request

Storage

• A description of the memory storage engine.
• What is Redis?
• A description of the Redis storage engine.
• An overview of Redis Cluster uses and benefits.

Other Features Grab-bag

• nchan_stub_status.
• Access-Control support with nchan_access_control_allow_origin.
• Upstream message passing using nchan_publisher_upstream_request
• Using X-Accel-Redirect.
• Meta channels configured with nchan_channel_events_channel_id and nchan_channel_event_string.