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Websockets
Bookmarks
Adding Elixir to a Next.js Chat App
Linen's engineering post on adding Elixir to their Next.js chat app for real-time features — why they chose Elixir/Phoenix over Node.js for WebSockets, the architecture trade-offs, and how they run both stacks in production. A candid account of a polyglot architecture decision.
Python and Real-time Web
Technical overview of real-time web patterns in Python circa 2013 — comparing Tornado, Twisted, gevent, and the emerging WebSocket ecosystem. A snapshot of Python's async web story before asyncio standardized the concurrency model.
Socket.IO
Socket.IO homepage bookmarked in 2012, when real-time web apps required elaborate workarounds. Socket.IO abstracted WebSockets with cross-browser fallbacks (long-polling, Comet), making bidirectional communication practical before WebSockets were universally supported.