How would you design real-time analytics using WebSockets?

Updated May 6, 2026

Short answer

Real-time analytics systems use WebSockets for streaming data updates from backend pipelines to dashboards.

Deep explanation

Data pipelines (Kafka, Flink, etc.) process events and push aggregated metrics to WebSocket servers. Clients subscribe to dashboards receiving incremental updates rather than polling APIs.

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