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A protocol (RFC 6455) for full-duplex, persistent connections over a single TCP link, used for real-time, low-latency web communication.
Microsoft treats speech as its own agent kind, with a managed realtime orchestrator holding the socket open. A dev.to walkthrough sets out why turn detection and tool calls had to be restructured around a few hundred milliseconds.
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An encrypted messenger shipped offline delivery behind 216 passing tests and delivered nothing. Only one of the four bugs needed a real machine to reproduce; the other three needed an assertion about leftover state.
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A dev.to post works the header-overhead sum for short polling and lands on 102.4 MB/s of pure framing metadata. The same sum separates polling from a held-open connection, and the three protocols in its title all sit on the same side of it.
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The encoding swap takes 40 to 55 percent off the bytes and adds a dependency. Setting binaryType and sending one frame every 50ms costs a line and a timer, and with deflate on the byte ranking can invert.
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A dev.to stack guide baselined on documentation checked in August 2026 treats Photon Fusion 2.1 as a first proof of concept only if four conditions hold, and three of those have nothing to do with packets.
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Group-IB says the Exilware crew built BraZetsu to score compromised Iberian and Latin American machines by value and sell entry to whoever wants to run their own payload, which changes how a stealer alert should be triaged.
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A dev.to post walks through what happens when Wi-Fi dies mid-session, and the useful part is the asymmetry it exposes: the server can probe with protocol pings, while browser code has to invent its own.
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Socket says the sharpest move in this campaign was buying utilities that already had users, then shipping the payload as version two. Install-time review had already run and passed, and the 80,000-user surface came with the purchase.
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A dev.to write-up argues the failure that hurts production clients is the socket still reporting OPEN with no data arriving. Reconnect code never runs if nothing declares the connection dead.
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