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Exactly! And once someone discovers these problems, it becomes easy to consider these types of complexity/tradeoffs for future use cases.
Really enjoyed the honest breakdown of the challenges behind building a real-time chess platform. The lessons around WebSocket authentication, concurrency, and server-side state management are valuable for anyone building scalable applications—topics we focus on regularly at https://www.remotestate.com/ as well.
Lara Laurielle
scaling my tech stack daily
The reconnection+state sync problems are where most people underestimate complexity. Feels like you only discover them once real users start breaking things