Real-Time Features That Update Instantly Across Thousands of Connections
Live dashboards, collaborative editing, chat systems, and notification streams require fundamentally different architecture than request-response applications. We build real-time features with WebSockets and Server-Sent Events that scale reliably and handle connection failures gracefully.
more frequent deployments by elite teams, enabled by event-driven architectures that decouple real-time features from the request-response cycle
DORA State of DevOps
Real-Time Applications
What's Included
Everything you get with our Real-Time Applications
Real-Time Architecture Design
WebSocket or SSE protocol selection, connection management strategy, message schema design, and scaling architecture for your specific concurrency requirements
Real-Time Feature Implementation
Server-side event broadcasting, client-side connection management with automatic reconnection, and message handling with optimistic updates and conflict resolution
Scaling and Monitoring
Redis pub/sub or dedicated message broker for multi-server broadcasting, connection monitoring, and load testing under realistic concurrency patterns
Our Real-Time Application Process
Protocol and Architecture Selection
We evaluate your real-time requirements: bidirectional vs unidirectional, concurrency targets, message frequency, and latency requirements. We select WebSocket or SSE and design the connection and message architecture.
Server-Side Implementation
We build the event broadcasting system, connection management, authentication for WebSocket connections, and the message routing layer. We integrate with your existing API and database.
Client-Side Integration
We implement the client-side connection manager with automatic reconnection, message handling with optimistic updates, and UI components that react to real-time data.
Load Testing and Deployment
We load-test with realistic concurrency patterns, verify reconnection behavior, and deploy with monitoring that tracks connection counts, message throughput, and error rates.
Key Benefits
Instant data delivery
Data reaches connected clients within milliseconds of the event occurring. No polling delay, no wasted requests, no stale data. Users see changes the moment they happen.
Horizontal scaling
Redis pub/sub or a dedicated message broker ensures that events broadcast to all connected clients regardless of which server they are connected to. Add servers to handle more connections without architectural changes.
Graceful degradation
Connection management handles network interruptions, server restarts, and client suspensions. Automatic reconnection with exponential backoff, event replay for missed messages, and fallback to polling when WebSocket connections are blocked by corporate firewalls.
Research & Evidence
Backed by industry research and proven results
State of DevOps Report
Elite teams deploy 973x more frequently, and event-driven real-time architectures enable independent scaling and deployment of real-time features without affecting the core application
DORA (2022)
Web Performance Impact
100ms of latency costs 7% in conversions, and real-time data delivery eliminates the polling latency that degrades user experience in dashboard and monitoring applications
Akamai (2017)
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