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Why we chose long-polling over websockets
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Leah Culver
November 08, 2011
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Why we chose long-polling over websockets
...and it's not what you think.
Leah Culver
November 08, 2011
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Leah Culver Keeping it Realtime 2011 Why we chose long-polling
over websockets ... and it’s not what you think
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