SGSiddhant Gorteintechwithsiddhant.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 18 min readRealtime Systems: Polling, WebSockets, SSE, and Pub/SubHow does WhatsApp deliver a message almost instantly? You send a message to a friend. A moment later, their phone shows a notification. You open a live sports application, and the score changes withou00
PKPRINCE KUMARinprincekumar-engineer.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 22 min readRealtime Systems: Polling, WebSocket, SSE, and Pub/SubHow does WhatsApp deliver a message instantly? You send a message to a friend. Within a fraction of a second, their phone shows a notification. There is no refresh button. You do not repeatedly ask t00
JOJoseph Oluwadarainjosephdara.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 20 min readFrom Cloud Run Experiment to Terraform-Managed Platform: Productionizing My Blockchain Indexer on Google Cloud How I rebuilt the Stablecoin Whale Monitor around a continuous Cloud Run Worker Pool, Terraform, least-privilege CI/CD, and observability that reflects what users can actually experience. The first ve00
ASAnik Sikderinaniksikder.hashnode.dev·Jul 30 · 7 min readPublish-Subscribe: How Modern Systems Scale Without Becoming a MonolithWhen an online order is placed, the customer sees a simple message: "Your order has been confirmed." Behind that message, however, an entire chain of events begins. The inventory must be updated. Th00
SPSaurabh Prajapatiinblog.thitainfo.com·Jul 27 · 19 min readRealtime Systems Deep Dive: Polling, WebSockets, SSE, and Pub/Sub ExplainedRealtime Systems Deep Dive: Polling, WebSockets, SSE, and Pub/Sub Explained TL;DR: Realtime communication is not one technology — it's a spectrum of patterns, each with distinct trade-offs in latency20
SPSaurabh Prajapatiinblog.thitainfo.com·Jul 27 · 19 min readRealtime Systems Deep Dive: Polling, WebSockets, SSE, and Pub/Sub ExplainedRealtime Systems Deep Dive: Polling, WebSockets, SSE, and Pub/Sub Explained TL;DR: Realtime communication is not one technology — it's a spectrum of patterns, each with distinct trade-offs in latency00
JOJoseph Oluwadarainjosephdara.hashnode.dev·Jul 11 · 18 min readFrom Two VMs to Cloud Run: Evolving My Blockchain Indexer on Google CloudHow I containerized the Stablecoin Whale Monitor, moved its state into Cloud Storage, added event-driven alerts with Pub/Sub, and ran the same image on GKE Autopilot. In the first version of this proj00
KSKanishka Shashiinhtml-dev09.hashnode.dev·Jul 7 · 17 min readRealtime Systems: Polling, WebSockets, SSE, and Pub/SubThe question that started it all How does WhatsApp deliver a message instantly? You send a message, and it appears on your friend's phone within a fraction of a second — no refresh button, no waiting.10
MBMadhav Bhasininblog.madhav.dev·Jun 22 · 6 min readPub/Sub Topics and Subscriptions: Designing PulseCart's Event BackboneIn Day 1 we defined PulseCart's event taxonomy — what events exist, what they mean, and what triggers them. Now we need somewhere to send them. That's Pub/Sub's job: a fully managed message broker tha00
MBMadhav Bhasininblog.madhav.dev·Jun 20 · 6 min readEvent-Driven Fundamentals: Why PulseCart Moved Off Request-ResponseEvery system starts synchronously. A user clicks "Add to Cart", your API handles it, writes to the database, and returns a 200. Simple, predictable, easy to reason about. Then traffic grows, and the c42M