I was working out/thinking about using a simple UDP protocol to send messages between 2 apps, and i started thinking about "what if" disconnection scenarios, and knowing if messages made their way ...

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WebSockets is a network communication protocol that enables two-way client-server communication. WebSockets are often used for applications that require instantaneous updates, using a persistent ...

Are there any special adjustments that need to be made (on the SQL server side, or the database/query side) to accomodate for communications over a slow(er) WAN link? We have had slow performance to ...

Omar El Bahr is the communication officer at nandbox, he's on a quest to enable everyone to build a mobile app for affordable prices. Digital communication is quickly becoming the norm in the business ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...