FoydaLive: Stabilization & Enhancement of Real-Time Chat & Gaming Platform

Diagnosed and resolved critical API authentication, rate-limiting, cron failures, and mobile-frontend compatibility issues in a live Laravel + Agora-powered chat/gaming app — ensuring platform uptime and seamless user experience.


🔧 Key Contributions:
- API Token Misconfiguration: Identified incorrect JWT/auth token handling causing intermittent 401 errors in chat/video endpoints.
- Rate Limit Exhaustion: Diagnosed unthrottled API calls (especially during peak gaming sessions) → implemented request queuing & caching strategies to reduce hits by ~70%.
- Cron Job Failures: Fixed broken scheduled tasks (e.g., daily stats aggregation, user cleanup) due to misconfigured timezone/environment variables.
- Mobile API Response Inconsistencies: Updated existing APIs to include new fields required by iOS/Android apps (e.g., game_session_id, is_active_call), ensuring backward compatibility.
- Third-Party Game Integration Support: Collaborated on embedding and maintaining game iframe integrations (e.g., 3 Patti providers), debugging session handoff, and ensuring secure token passing between platform and game servers.