OMG Mike, what an excellent discovery! If the design requires sockets then it's most likely for speed (direct peer to peer), right?. I'm wondering what something like RabbitMQ would have done in this situation?
Hey John, we are using Bull and moving to Rabbit on the back end and indeed that's what gives us the ability to easily rewind events on a reconnect. In this case I think it's either sockets - but I just hate the amount of code we have to write around socket.io, or the long polling - which is basically now working- had to do the reconnect stuff ourselves but that is easier given just how simple long polling is compared to sockets. Performance seems to be holding up, but this is a live situation haha! Not done full scalability on it yet...
OMG Mike, what an excellent discovery! If the design requires sockets then it's most likely for speed (direct peer to peer), right?. I'm wondering what something like RabbitMQ would have done in this situation?
Thank you for this Long Polling tip.
Hey John, we are using Bull and moving to Rabbit on the back end and indeed that's what gives us the ability to easily rewind events on a reconnect. In this case I think it's either sockets - but I just hate the amount of code we have to write around socket.io, or the long polling - which is basically now working- had to do the reconnect stuff ourselves but that is easier given just how simple long polling is compared to sockets. Performance seems to be holding up, but this is a live situation haha! Not done full scalability on it yet...