Technology

WebSocket

WebSocket is a persistent, bidirectional TCP-style connection between browser and server, upgraded from an initial HTTP handshake. TantraDev uses WebSockets for live dashboards, collaborative editing, low-latency notifications, and real-time event fan-out. At scale the operational pattern is sticky-load-balanced gateways in front of a stateless fan-out tier — the WebSocket layer carries no business logic.

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TECHNOLOGY

gRPC

gRPC is a Google-designed RPC framework over HTTP/2 with Protocol Buffers as the schema and serialization layer. The contract is the .proto file, generated code lives in every client language, and bidirectional streaming is a first-class primitive. TantraDev uses gRPC service-to-service where latency budgets and schema discipline justify the tooling tax over a JSON REST contract.

Canonical references

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

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