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Engineering real-time.

Architecture deep dives, tutorials, and lessons learned building real-time infrastructure at scale.

Tutorial8 min read

Connect Your Local LLM to NoLag in 5 Minutes

AI Agents12 min read

Hybrid LLM Coordination: Mixing Local and Proprietary Models

AI Agents14 min read

Building an Agentic Chatbot with NoLag

AI Agents10 min read

From Human Realtime to Agent Realtime

AI Agents11 min read

Why Multi-Agent Systems Need a Coordination Layer

Architecture8 min read

WebSockets vs Polling: Why Real-Time Apps Need a Persistent Connection

Tutorial6 min read

How to Build a Real-Time Chat App in Under 10 Minutes

Performance7 min read

MessagePack vs JSON: 47% Smaller Payloads for Real-Time Apps

Architecture9 min read

The Pub/Sub Pattern Explained: Topics, Rooms, and Message Routing

Architecture7 min read

QoS 0, 1, and 2: Choosing the Right Delivery Guarantee for Every Message

Engineering8 min read

Building Presence at Scale: Who Is Online and How to Track It

Tutorial6 min read

Real-Time Dashboards Without the Firehose: Filtered Subscriptions

Architecture9 min read

IoT Fleet Tracking Over WebSockets: Architecture for 100K Devices

Engineering7 min read

Handling Disconnects Gracefully: Reconnection and Message Replay

Product6 min read

Blueprint SDKs vs Raw Pub/Sub: Ship in Minutes Instead of Weeks

February 24, 2026