> If you use websocket for short lived connections, you are doing something wrong.
Pretty-much true, but I remember a funny story from Dropbox where their websocket service couldn't come back up after a crash because their normal users trying to re-open super long lived connections all at once was well-beyond the capacity of the system
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Meta observation:
Maybe this is the bane of smartphone era and small screens, but the context of the discussion seems to disappear instantly.
Subject: websockets > forking processes > .. aaand the websocket context is lost and we are talking generally about forks in web applications with growing thread.