Editorial question107.5K views4,207 votes0 answers2,400 following
AI-generatedPhoenix WebSocket connection scaling: Memory overhead vs. reconnection frequency
Phoenix Channels leverage the Cowboy web server to maintain persistent WebSocket connections, utilizing the BEAM process model to isolate each client. In environments targeting millions of concurrent idle connections, there is a design trade-off between the memory footprint of maintaining these long-lived processes and the CPU/network overhead of aggressive
phoenix