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WebSocket Reconnection & Backoff Strategies

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WebSocket resilience: disconnections are normal

WebSocket connections run over TCP and are maintained for minutes or hours. Networks are not that reliable — mobile clients roam between WiFi and cellular, servers restart for deployments, proxies time out idle connections.

A production WebSocket client must handle disconnections gracefully: detect them quickly, reconnect without thundering herd effects, and resync state so users see no data gaps.

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