Ask HN: Does thread based webservice scale with websockets?

4 pointsfilipedeschamps12y ago4 comments

Will it suffer the same problems of concurrency vs threads or not?

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wmf12y ago· 2 in thread

It depends on your runtime and your scalability goal. 10,000 threads is possible in some circumstances but 1M is probably not possible.

But for every socket, the webservice will open 1 thread?

wmf12y ago

That's one way to design it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse