Ep 073: Silent Sockets

Functional Design in Clojure

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, the topic is: “Checking websocket health.” We worry about the health of our websockets and, after looking for help from the standards bodies, roll up our sleeves and handle it ourselves.

Selected quotes:

• “It’s the ghosting in the websocket world.”
• “With polling, every request is a fresh opportunity to recover from the last request’s errors.”
• “Long polling is just beating the server up at a slower rate.”
• “By giving your code names with meaning, you can read the code that uses it and comprehend it faster.”
• “Complexity costs, and you pay in time and confusion.”

Related episodes:

• 012: Embrace the REPL
• 020: Data Dessert