---
title: "Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/simplifying-complexity-the-journey-from-websockets-to-http-streams-vqnljankg
source_url: https://blog.owulveryck.info/2023/12/02/simplifying-complexity-the-journey-from-websockets-to-http-streams.html
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2023-12-11T21:48:41.744Z
updated: 2026-05-21T02:12:35.539Z
tags: ["golang", "server-sent-events", "webdev"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The article discusses the journey of simplifying the process of capturing gesture positions from a tablet's screen and relaying them to a browser. It explores the trade-off between the complexity of WebSockets and their functionalities, and offers an alternative approach using HTTP streams. The approach involves serializing touch events into a byte stream and using Server-Sent Events (SSE) for communication between the server and client.

## Full article

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Tags: [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#server-sent-events](https://daily.dev/tags/server-sent-events), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev)

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