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How Recall.ai Saved $1M on AWS by Eliminating WebSockets
Recall.ai recently shared their experience running a platform for building and managing meeting bots on AWS, where they uncovered that using WebSockets was adding an extra 1M USD per year in costs. The team describes how they developed an alternative high-bandwidth, low-latency inter-process communication (IPC) solution to resolve the issue.
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OpenAI Launches Public Beta of Realtime API for Low-Latency Speech Interactions
OpenAI launched the public beta of the Realtime API, offering developers the ability to create low-latency, multimodal voice interactions within their applications. Additionally, audio input/output is now available in the Chat Completions API, expanding options for voice-driven applications. Early feedback highlights limited voice options and response cutoffs.
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How Canva Scaled Real-Time Collaboration with WebRTC: from WebSockets to Seamless P2P Communication
Canva recently shared how it implemented real-time mouse pointers for collaborative whiteboarding. Canva chose a WebRTC-based solution to improve scalability, reduce latency, and lower backend load. Since WebRTC uses peer-to-peer communication, Canva can provide users with a smoother, more performant real-time experience than a traditional backend-based WebSocket and Redis solution.
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Netflix’s Pushy: Evolution of Scalable WebSocket Platform That Handles 100Ms Concurrent Connections
Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented many improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 9 Preview 2: Blazor, OIDC, OAuth and Configuring HTTP.sys
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 2 which contains some updates regarding ASP.NET Core: Blazor component constructor injection, and WebSocket compression for Blazor interactive server components. Furthermore, developers can streamline authentication integration by customising OIDC and OAuth parameters and configuring HTTP.sys extended authentication flags.
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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka
Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.
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Expedia Uses WebSockets and Kafka to Query Near Real-Time Streaming Data
Expedia created a solution to support querying the clickstream data from their platform in near-real time to enable their product and engineering teams to explore live data while working on new and enhancing existing data-driven functional use cases. The team used a combination of WebSockets, Apache Kafka, and PostgreSQL to allow streaming query results continuously to users’ browsers.
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Microsoft Introduces Public Preview of Socket.IO Support on Azure Web PubSub
Microsoft recently added support for Socket.IO on Azure in public preview, allowing developers to leverage a fully-managed cloud solution through Web PubSub for Socket.IO.
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.NET 7 Brings Networking Improvements
The .NET 7 launch has brought many improvements around the whole API surface of the .NET Framework. In networking operations, .NET 7 improves the capabilities and performance of the existing HTTP and WebSockets protocols. It exposed a new protocol called QUIC and has many performance improvements compared to .NET 6.
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Microsoft’s New Azure Fluid Relay Service Now Generally Available
Recently, Microsoft announced its Azure Fluid Relay service's general availability (GA). This managed cloud offering enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications.
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Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Web PubSub, a new service for building real-time web applications. Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.
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Zoom on Web: WebAssembly SIMD, WebTransport, and WebCodecs
At the recent web.dev live event, Google V8 product manager Thomas Nattestad explained some of the proposed additions to the web to support Zoom and other video conferencing features within the web browser.
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Microsoft Adds Cross-Platform Support for Azure Relay Hybrid Connections
Microsoft recently announced that their Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service has reached General Availability. The Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service, which is WebSocket-based, complements the existing Azure Service Bus Relay offering which is now being referred to as WCF Relays.
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Impact of Java EE 8 Hiatus on Tomcat 9 Highlighted at SpringOne
Mark Thomas (markt@apache.org) gave an update on the Apache Tomcat roadmap on the first day of the SpringOne Platform conference in Las Vegas this week, in which he brought up the fact that the ongoing delays to Java EE 8, something we've highlighted on InfoQ before, are also causing problems for the Apache Tomcat team.
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Socket.IO 1.0 Release Brings Binary Support, new Engine.IO Module
Guillermo Rauch has released version 1.0 of the Socket.IO realtime JavaScript library, bringing with it the new Engine.IO module, and support for sending binary data. Coming more than two years since the last major release, the JavaScript community has largely greeted the news warmly, but for some the release has been too long coming.