WebSockets

Tag: WebSockets

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YAGNI Club

HTML over the wire

WebSockets for HTML over the wire? In this economy?

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Aug 11
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jimjonah.dev
jimjonah.dev

Yet another game engine — why?

What does Covid, extreme ad monetization and memory decline have to do with yet another card game engine?

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Jun 10
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Modernizing a CDK Project - WebSocket Server with Fargate
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subaud.io

Modernizing a CDK Project - WebSocket Server with Fargate

I recently revisited cdk-websocket-server, a demo I published in 2023 for running a WebSocket server on ECS Fargate behind CloudFront. The original worked, but it carried unnecessary complexity — EC2 instances backing a Fargate cluster, a custom Lambda to patch CloudFront headers, and a single-stage Docker build running as root. Here's what changed and why. Dropping the EC2 Auto Scaling Group The original created an EC2 Auto Scaling Group alongside the Fargate cluster: // Old approach con

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Feb 21
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