Design for Unreliable Connections
Clients connect to our real-time application using a long-lived connection. The client’s connection can close or fail at any point; we need to consider this and write code to recover from this when it happens.
There are certainly expected reasons for a connection to disconnect, such as a user leaving the application, changing pages, or closing their laptop while the application is loaded. There are also more unpredictable reasons that cause a connection to (erroneously) disconnect. A few examples of this are:
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A client’s internet connection becomes unstable and drops their connection without any other changes.
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A bug in the client code causes it to close the connection.
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The server restarts due to a routine deploy ...
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