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		<title><![CDATA[Building a Realtime Dashboard with Apinator]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to build a live analytics dashboard that updates in real time using Apinator WebSockets, with less than 20 lines of client code.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build a Live Collaborative Document Editor]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to build a Google Docs-style collaborative editor with real-time cursor tracking, live edits, and presence indicators using WebSockets.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Is WebSocket Infrastructure?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebSocket infrastructure is the layer that manages persistent connections at scale — handling auth, routing, fanout, and delivery so your app doesn't have to.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build a Crypto / Stock Price Ticker with WebSockets]]></title>
		<link>https://apinator.io/blog/how-to-build-a-crypto-stock-price-ticker/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build a live price ticker that updates in real time — polling an external price feed on the server and pushing updates to all clients instantly via WebSockets.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Scale WebSockets to 1 Million Connections]]></title>
		<link>https://apinator.io/blog/how-to-scale-websocket-to-1-million-connections/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scaling WebSockets beyond a single server requires careful architecture. Here's what actually breaks and how to fix it — from sticky sessions to Redis fanout and horizontal scaling.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build a Live Voting and Polling System]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build a real-time voting system where results update live as votes come in — no refresh needed. Perfect for Q&A sessions, live events, and audience interaction.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WebSockets vs HTTP Polling]]></title>
		<link>https://apinator.io/blog/websockets-vs-http-polling/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polling gets the job done until it doesn't. Here's an honest comparison of WebSockets and HTTP polling — latency, server load, complexity, and when to use each.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build a Multiplayer Game with WebSockets]]></title>
		<link>https://apinator.io/blog/how-to-build-a-multiplayer-game-with-websockets/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build a real-time multiplayer game using WebSockets — from game state synchronization to player presence and input broadcasting, with a working example.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Redis Pub/Sub Explained]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redis Pub/Sub is the backbone of most WebSocket scaling architectures. Here's how it works, what it's good at, and where it falls short.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Add Realtime to a Next.js App]]></title>
		<link>https://apinator.io/blog/how-to-add-realtime-to-nextjs/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add live WebSocket features to your Next.js app — from server-side event publishing in Route Handlers to client-side subscriptions with a custom React hook.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Presence Channels Explained]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presence channels let you track who's online in real time — showing typing indicators, viewer counts, and live cursors without building your own member tracking.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Add Realtime to a Laravel App]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add WebSocket-powered realtime features to your Laravel application — publishing events from controllers and subscribing from the frontend with a few lines of code.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build Live Customer Support Chat]]></title>
		<link>https://apinator.io/blog/how-to-build-live-customer-support-chat/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build a live chat widget for your product — a customer-facing chat window and an agent dashboard that both update in real time using WebSockets.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build Slack with WebSockets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slack's realtime features — channel messages, typing indicators, online presence, and notifications — can all be built with WebSockets. Here's how the architecture works.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Build Realtime Chat in Node.js]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A step-by-step guide to building a working realtime chat app with Node.js and Apinator — from server setup to client subscription in under 50 lines of code.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WebSocket Load Balancing Explained]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Load balancing WebSockets is trickier than HTTP — persistent connections and stateful servers mean round-robin doesn't cut it. Here's what actually works.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Is a WebSocket?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebSockets let servers push data to clients the moment it changes — no polling, no waiting. Here's how they work, what they're good for, and when to use them.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How the WebSocket Handshake Works]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WebSocket connection starts as HTTP and upgrades to a persistent socket. Here's exactly what happens during the handshake — headers, keys, and all.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Is a Pub/Sub Channel?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pub/sub channels are the core abstraction in realtime systems — they let publishers send messages to many subscribers without knowing who's listening. Here's how they work.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WebSocket Protocol Explained]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A practical guide to the WebSocket protocol — how connections are established, how frames are structured, what opcodes do, and what all of this means when you're building realtime apps.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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