Chapter 19

WhatsApp / Chat

Design a real-time chat system: message delivery guarantees, online presence, and fan-out to group chats.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦WebSocket gateway servers clustering
✦Message synchronization protocols
✦Online presence tracking engines
✦Group chat message distribution

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