Real-time is becoming the life blood of applications. Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Google Docs and many more apps have increased user expectation to demand real-time features. Features such as Notifications, activity streams, real-time data visualisations, chat or collaborative experiences instantly keep users up to date and enable them to work much more effectively. So, how do you build these sorts of features with .NET? This talk will cover the benefits of moving away from polling to push, the options you have with .NET web application to do this and when adding real-time features to your apps, and the pros and cons of each to help choose which is the best solution for you.