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Scaling WebSockets the Wrong Way (On Purpose): A Multi-Instance Reality Check

You don’t truly understand distributed systems until your app “works perfectly”… and then breaks the moment you scale it.

Frank Mendez
🚀 From WebSockets to AI Agents: Building chatmesh (and Breaking It on Purpose)

Most developers build features. I wanted to build systems. So instead of another CRUD app, I started building a real-time chat backend in Go—something simple on the surface, but brutal underneath.

Frank Mendez