WebSocket Resources

References

• Alex Russell, Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser
• Ably WebSockets Guide
• Berkeley sockets
• Can I use WebSockets?
• Django Channels
• Dr. Paddy Byers, Engineering dependability and fault tolerance in a distributed system
• Everything You Need To Know About Publish/Subscribe
• Grafana
• IANA WebSocket Close Code Number Registry
• IANA WebSocket Extension Name Registry
• IANA WebSocket Opcode Registry
• IANA WebSocket Protocol Registries
• IANA WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry
• IETF HTTP Working Group, HTTP Documentation, Core Specifications
• IRC logs, 18.06.2018
• Jeroen de Kok, How to implement a random exponential backoff algorithm in Javascript
• Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
• Kayla Matthews, MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
• Long Polling — Concepts and Considerations
• Matthew O’Riordan, Google — polling like it’s the 90s
• Michael Gariffo, AWS suffers third outage of the month
• OSI model
• Prometheus
• Redis
• Redis adapter for Socket.IO
• RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0
• RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1
• RFC 6455: The WebSocket Protocol
• RFC 7519: JSON Web Token (JWT)
• RFC 8441: Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2
• Scaling WebSockets: The Challenge Explained
• Server-Sent Events (SSE): A Conceptual Deep Dive
• Server-sent events, HTML Living Standard
• Simple Network Management Protocol
• Snowpack
• SocketCluster
• Socket.IO
• SockJS-client
• SockJS-node
• The IETF HTTP Working Group
• The Original HTTP as defined in 1991
• The Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol (STOMP)
• The websocket-extensions framework
• Tsviatko Yovtchev, Delta Compression: A practical guide to diff algorithms and delta file formats
• W3C mailing lists, TCPConnection feedback
• WebSocket Load Balancing Guide
• Websocket Pubsub open source projects on GitHub
• Web sockets, HTML Living Standard
• ws: a Node.js WebSocket library
• XMLHttpRequest Living Standard

Videos

• A Beginner’s Guide to WebSockets
• How to scale WebSockets to millions of connections
• How to use Websockets with React and Node
• The Complete Guide to WebSockets
• WebSockets Crash Course - Handshake, Use-cases, Pros & Cons and more

Further reading

• Ably’s WebSocket Guide
• The Challenge of Scaling WebSockets
• WebSocket Load Balancing at Scale
• WebSockets Security: Main Attacks and Risks
• WebSocket Security - Cross-Site Hijacking (CSWSH)
• The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets
• Implementing a WebSocket server with Node.js
• Migrating Millions of Concurrent Websockets to Envoy (Slack Engineering)
• The Periodic Table of Realtime

Open-source WebSocket libraries

• Socket.IO
• Nodejs-websocket
• WebSocket-Node
• SockJS-node
• SockJS-client
• ws
• websocket-as-promised
• faye-websocket-node
• Sockette
• rpc-websockets