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by bullen 1587 days ago
The problem with WebSockets is that hey are:

1) More complex and binary so you cannot debug them as easily, specially on live and specially if you use HTTPS.

2) The implementations don't parallelize the processing, with Comet-Stream + SSE you just need to find a application server that has concurrency and you are set to scale on the entire machines cores.

3) WebSockets still have more problems with Firewalls.