We have described the general server design and threading model in our last article. Today we will go under the hood to explore the engineering details of how data is transferred between the server and the client. On the high level, instruction requests are harvested in sets and queued for processing by the worker threads. […]

The Hiitch server is a multi-threaded application server that you can tune to scale it to your desired hardware setup. It also implements customizable security features that you can use to secure your own network’s integrity and privacy. Hence, understanding some of the key concepts in its design […]

The Hiitch platform consists of three basic software components. These components are aggregated together on the desktop to produce a seamless real time social networking system. In due time more components may be added to provide richer functionality and online services but we will just focus on these three components for now.
Hiitch Server
The server is […]

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This is the first of many technical articles that we will be releasing as we begin our work to bring Hiitch to you as promised in our previous blog postings. We will basically focus on the technology behind building a complete […]

When we first started working on Hiitch our focus was mainly on on-line dating. However, as we progressed, we realized that Hiitch was becoming more and more like a dedicated and secure social networking software than merely an on-line dating tool. We like to see ourselves as still in the process of allowing our users […]