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Re:Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets by arrty88 on Sunday January 05, 2025 @12:09PM (#42603173)
Why couldn’t nodejs with uWS library or golang + gorilla handle 10s of thousands of connections?
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Re:Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets by apitman on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:05PM (#42603607)
I think GP's point is that they feel Phoenix is simpler to use than alternatives, not necessarily that it scales better.
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Re:Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets by cultofmetatron on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:13AM (#42608451)
to clarify, it does scale better out of the box. a clustered websocket setup where reconnections can go to a different machine and resume state works our of the box. its a LOT of work do do that in nodejs. I've done both.
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