600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js

600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js - blog.

I recently faced the challenge to get as much power as possible out of a AWS EC2 instance at the lowest possible cost using concurrent persistent websockets. To do this I needed to use a event-driven, non-blocking runtime environment. For this particular purpose Node.js is excellent with its lightweight and fast Chrome V8 engine. Technical decisions […]

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