This is the sixth part of the Chatterbox series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Origins We covered a lot about general system design and features. Now it’s time to talk about the actual core of the system for which it was created — … Continue reading Chatterbox Part 6 — Protocols

This is the fifth part of the Chatterbox series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Origins One of the most important parts for reliable systems is their ability to heal themselves. While it may sound easy, there are many things to consider here. Let’s … Continue reading Chatterbox Part 5 — Self healing

This is the fourth part of the Chatterbox series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Origins Apart from web, desktop, and mobile you may want to have other channels. Texts Why Why would you need text messages for your service at all? Can’t you … Continue reading Chatterbox Part 4 — Other channels

This is the third part of the Chatterbox series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Origins What do we do about mobile devices? Depending on which platform we chose in previous part, we may have very limited options. If we go with our custom … Continue reading Chatterbox Part 3 — Security and mobile devices

This is the second part of the Chatterbox series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Origins So we have our system for IM and we’d like to have a nice UI for chatting with people. Obviously, we could use regular web interfaces (like for … Continue reading Chatterbox Part 2 — Desktop interfaces