Topic guides

These documents discuss how websockets is designed and how to make the best of its features when building applications.

• Authentication
  • System design
  • Sending credentials
  • Let’s experiment!
  • Machine-to-machine authentication
• Broadcasting
  • The naive way
  • The concurrent way
  • Backpressure meets broadcast
  • How broadcast() works
  • Per-client queues
  • Publish–subscribe
  • Performance considerations
• Logging
  • Logs contents
  • Configure logging
  • Logging to JSON
  • Disable logging
  • Log levels
• Proxies
  • Configuration
  • SOCKS proxies
  • HTTP proxies
• Routing
  • Simple routing
  • Complex routing

These guides describe how to optimize the configuration of websockets applications for performance and reliability.

• Compression
  • Configuring compression
  • Compression parameters
  • Default settings for servers
  • Optimizing settings
  • Default settings for clients
  • Decompression
  • Further reading
• Keepalive and latency
  • Long-lived connections
  • Keepalive in websockets
  • Keepalive in browsers
  • Application-level keepalive
  • Latency issues
• Memory and buffers
  • Connection
  • Application
  • Buffers
• Security
  • Encryption
  • Memory usage
  • HTTP limits
  • Identification
• Performance
  • uvloop
  • broadcast