
How I Solved the WebSocket Scaling Problem Without Breaking the Bank | HackerNoon
A long time ago, I found myself in a situation where I had to create a scalable system that could be capable of handling hundreds of simultaneous connections at not very high cost, and with reasonable, but not instant time of response. My first thoughts? Let’s move all create/edit/delete actions to the queue and notify users if their actions succeeded or not via WebSocket. But back then, I hadn’t much experience with WebSockets in production,