What happens when you turn your audience into a live, distributed load test?
We will kick off this session with a high-stakes, multiplayer "Whack-a-Mole" challenge played right from your phone. As you compete for the leaderboard, a live stream of concurrent data will be generated to showcase realtime web capabilities in action across devices.
After playing around, it is time to get serious by digging into the challenges, architecture and technologies used when building such a platform. Discover how helpful or distracting AI can be during this process.
Key takeaways include:
- AI: The Good & The Glitchy!
- The Stack: NextJS, Supabase and Playwright.
- Realtime: No longer refreshing the page.
- Automated Testing: Does it work every time?
Leave the theory behind and see how modern tools and a bit of trial and error handle the chaos of live user interaction.
This talk has been presented at Web Engineering Summit 2026, check out the latest edition of this Tech Conference.





















