Vladimir Dementyev (Evil Martians) surveys Ruby solutions for real-time web apps, dissecting Action Cable's strengths and weaknesses around memory usage and broadcast latency. He introduces AnyCable, which replaces Action Cable's server with a Go (or Erlang) WebSocket server talking to Rails over gRPC, and covers related projects LiteCable, Iodine, and Plezi.
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