Chat Server

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A server responsible for handling chat connections, message routing, presence, history storage, and related real-time messaging concerns. Chat servers often need to manage fan-out, ordering, persistence, and backpressure across many concurrent connections.

    In plain English: A server that runs the backend of a chat or messaging system.

    Example: "The chat server was split from the main API cluster so websocket fan-out and typing events did not compete with normal request traffic."

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