A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1. A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1 Written on 15 October 2008 In this series I will detail what I found out empirically about how mochiweb performs with lots of open connections, and show how to build a comet application using mochiweb, where each mochiweb connection is registered with a router which dispatches messages to various users.
We end up with a working application that can cope with a million concurrent connections, and crucially, knowing how much RAM we need to make it work. In part one: Build a basic comet mochiweb app that sends clients a message every 10 seconds. Nginx_http_push_module - Comet For The People. Plurk: Instant conversations using Comet. The web is becoming more and more realtime and we at Plurk are following the trend.
Yesterday we released instant notifications so users can have conversations with sub-second delays - - it's like group based instant messaging. Implementing this has not been easy given the complexities and size of Plurk, some problems include: How would you serve 100,000 simultaneous comet requests with Node? - nodejs.