5 WebSocket Design Decisions Most Developers Never Learn
Millions of developers ship chat apps, live dashboards, and multiplayer games on WebSockets without understanding the protocol's hidden design choices. This deep-dive unpacks five of them — the magic GUID handshake, TCP slow-start exploitation, client-side masking, firewall-friendly ports, and why HTTP/2 sometimes wins. You'll walk away able to explain the protocol at a level that holds up in any system design interview.
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