How teams scaled WebSockets: 2 real case studies
2 of the 73 engineering write-ups in our database mention WebSockets in their stack. They come from 1 company (Slack) and were published between 2017 and 2023. Each card below links to our short summary and the original post.
Slack · 2023
Real-time Messaging
An overview of Slack's channel and gateway servers that fan messages out to millions of connected clients in real time.
Slack · 2017
Flannel: An Application-Level Edge Cache to Make Slack Scale
Slack added Flannel, an edge cache that serves user and channel data lazily so huge teams no longer need giant boot payloads.
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