[ale] Web Socket Implementations

[James Sumners]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> Your biggest issue with websockets is concurrency. At Cox we use a node.js
> implementation because nothing else comes close to having a similar
> connection capacity with the same hardware resources. We are in a unique
> situation of needing to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent
> connections.

I'd be interested in hearing how node.js is outperforming the JVM. Are
you having to restart processes at regular intervals (e.g. due to
memory growth)? How do you keep the scripts running? Etc.


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