WebSockets Interactive Guide

Master real-time communication — the WS protocol, connection lifecycle, rooms, horizontal scaling, auth, and binary payloads — with hands-on examples, MCQs, and coding challenges.

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Protocol & Connections

Wire Protocol, Lifecycle & Rooms

The upgrade handshake, frame format and control frames, connection states with heartbeat and close codes, plus room-based broadcasting.

Scale & Production

Scaling, Security & Performance

Sticky sessions and Redis pub/sub adapters, token and origin-based auth, plus binary frames, compression, and backpressure.