A WebSocket connection that survives a coding demo is not the same as one that survives production traffic. In a demo, the network is stable, the tab stays open, and nobody’s phone drops from Wi-Fi to LTE mid-request. In production, none of that holds, and the difference between a websocket implementation that works and one […] The post WebSocket Best Practices for Production: Reconnects, Heartbeats, and Missed Events appeared first on NOWNodes Blog .