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Polling, SSE or WebSockets: Picking a Transport for Live Updates
Two tools on this site push live updates, and only one of them warranted a socket. How to choose between polling, Server-Sent Events and WebSockets.
Real-timeWebSocketsNode.jsArchitecture
Broadcasting to a Crowd's Phones with Eddystone BLE Beacons
How BLE beacons push signals to thousands of phones with no network, and why broadcast beats connections at scale.
BLEEddystoneReal-timeMobile
Scaling Live Video: An Intro to WebRTC SFUs
Why peer-to-peer WebRTC falls apart with an audience, and how a Selective Forwarding Unit makes low-latency one-to-many streaming possible.
WebRTCSFULive VideoReal-time