One of the big new features of the HiveMQ 1.4 release is definitely the native support for MQTT over Websockets. Every modern browser on any device is now a potential full-fledged MQTT client. With real publish/subscribe in the browser, web apps can take full advantage of highly scalable messaging with a very low bandwidth footprint. Why Websockets?Websockets are around for a long time now. There
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