tanel
Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for Very Fast Servers
on Friday February 22, 2013 @12:45PM (#5265472)
I have exactly the same experience. Very pleasant to write programs that are going to be used by more than 10k users at once.
Re:Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks
on Friday February 22, 2013 @12:43PM (#5265463)
word, to be honest I don't get it why it's on hn.
Re:ActiveRecord Vulnerability - Circumvention of attr_protected
on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:41PM (#5204193)
Re:The Looming Coffee Apocalypse
on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @10:57AM (#5032119)
I'm from Estonia and I've never heard about the flatiron-coffee-thing. Wtf is it.
Re:The Realtime Engine
on Saturday July 07, 2012 @06:27AM (#4211305)
I had the same experience. socket.io was too flaky. Also I didn't need Flash support etc. In the end when I started to fix socket.io code to suit my needs and to handle the weird errors, I simply hacked together something in Go that pulls messages from Redis and writes them to Websocket or as HTTP GET response. It has only Websocket and HTTP POST/GET support but who cares. The simpler the code for handling these things, the better. Maybe socket.io got too complicated or something.
In my experience, Websocket is not something to depend on. But it's really nice to have and should be used as an upgrade if available.