Azure SignalR Service Scales Real-Time Web Applications

• The Azure SignalR service simplifies building high scalable Web applications with real-time client-server communications.
• Web applications with features such as chat, dashboards, and tickers could benefit from the use of SignalR and the service.
• The service works with Web applications implemented using ASP.NET Core 2.1, but not the Windows-only ASP.NET.

The SignalR technology offered in ASP.NET enables developers to build Web applications that include real-time client-server communication for features such as real-time chat, dashboards that automatically update, and broadcasts to multiple clients. The Azure SignalR service simplifies deployment and implementation of Web applications that use SignalR, especially those that need to scale to support high traffic.

Service Reduces SignalR Deployment Complexity

SignalR, which debuted several years ago in ASP.NET 4.5, provides APIs that simplify the implementation of real-time communications connections between Web servers and clients. There are multiple mechanisms available to create such connections over HTTP, such as WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, and long polling. SignalR determines the most efficient method supported by the server and client and establishes a connection using that method. This reduces the amount and complexity of the code required to support real-time communications features.