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Real-Time Phoenix
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Real-Time Phoenix

by Stephen Bussey
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Wrapping Up

The WebSocket protocol provides a strong real-time communication layer for our real-time applications. WebSockets start as normal HTTP requests before being upgraded to TCP sockets for data exchange. This allows WebSockets to work well with current web technologies and also lets them leverage faster data transport by using a single connection with minimal protocol overhead for each message. There are many successful and large products in production using WebSockets. This gives us more confidence in the stability and state of this technology.

WebSockets are a solid foundation for real-time systems and are what we’ll predominately work with throughout the examples in this book. Many of the concepts presented in this chapter will reappear ...

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