Arguing that "WebSockets are bad, because the principals we use for HTTP scalability are not applicable to them" is not wrong, but feels short sighted. Yes: Sca

Arguing that "WebSockets are bad, because the principals we use for HTTP scalability are not applicable to them" is not wrong, but feels short sighted. Yes: Scaling numerous persistent connections is hard, seeing that most of the available infrastructure is geared towards short-lived HTTP request/response requirements. But there are realtime specific alternatives. You wouldn't want to build your realtime backend from scratch, but rather use something like http://deepstream.io http://deepstream.io which takes care of the heavy lifting.