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Engineering · 30 July 2026 · 12 min

WebSockets vs SSE: a realtime guide without religion

An honest guide to realtime transport: WebSockets vs SSE vs polite polling. Lifecycle, reconnection with backoff, presence, scaling and mobile battery realities.

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