Scaling Django for Real-Time Applications: WebSockets, Channels, and Async Views

Django built its reputation on synchronous request-response cycles. But modern applications demand real-time features: live notifications, collaborative editing, chat systems,…

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Migrating a Legacy RMI Application to WebSockets — A Pragmatic Guide

Remote Method Invocation (RMI) was once the straightforward way for Java apps to talk across a network. But it’s tightly…

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Creating High-Performance Web Applications with ActiveJ

In this article, we will create several web applications using a single full-stack ActiveJ framework. 1. Why using ActiveJ? Most…

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Real-Time Communication: Implementing Websockets With Spring Boot

When developing web applications, we sometimes need to push server events down to connected clients. However, HTTP was not designed…

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Backpressure in action with websockets and akka-streams

So in the previous article I showed how you could create a websocket server using akka-streams. In this follow up…

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Integrating CDI and WebSockets

Thought of experimenting with a simple Java EE 7 prototype application involving JAX-RS (REST), WebSockets and CDI. Note: Don’t want…

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ReactiveMongo with Akka, Scala and websockets

I was looking for a simple websocket server for one of my projects to test some stuff with reactive mongo.…

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Slides from Nuts and Bolts of WebSocket at #Devoxx 2014

Peter Moskovits from Kaazing (@peterm_kaazing) and I gave a university talk at Devoxx 2014 on Nuts and Bolts of WebSocket.…

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STOMP over WebSocket

STOMP is Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol. It defines an interoperable wire format that allows a STOMP client to communicate…

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