Making Meetup: Real-life Meetups Deserve Real-time APIs

makingmeetup:

First things first, open a linux or mac terminal and tap into the RSVPs stream:

curl http://stream.meetup.com/2/rsvps

What you’re seeing now is each RSVP to a public Meetup group as we receive it. When a user clicks an RSVP button or an application calls the RSVP method, the server handling the…