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What can I use it for? What is it?
It’s used for things like notifying users when they get a DM, or displaying live sports scores.
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That 5$ instance will cover 90% of the needs of 90% of the businesses out there. You. Are. Not. Google/Facebook/Netflix/TikTok.
> You. Are. Not. Google/Facebook/Netflix/TikTok. That cannot be repeated enough. 90% of the tech flaunted here on HN is interesting only on a technical level, never in a business setting. I suspect Google released Kubernetes to hamstring all competition. You do not need it. Unless you're Google.
So it’s overkill for a CRUD app, but you certainly don’t need the scale of Google to find it useful.
> Written on top of C, ported to Node.js. I think what they mean is it uses uWebSockets.js, a Node.js module wrapping a C++ implementation. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
Its a STOMP protocol server written in non-blocking C. +web sockets.
There is no code required in the nginx part because it implements stomp topics and queues. If you want code, it plugs into a rust based stomp server talking reverse STOMP protocol, so you can code all you like in rust and scale out with n x nginx servers.
It is very very low on cpu use. I wrote it because rabbitmq used 5% cpu while idle. Xtomp uses close to 0% cpu when idle because nginx.
I'm a php & mysql -dev and still can't understand these websockets. What if I have a cron job that sends messages to this websocket server and it pushes them to web-app (vue front, added to home screen on mobile phone, not an installed app) push notification. How this can be done ? and how can the server even keep up with the websocket connections to thousands of clients ? does the websocket re-open if user restarts…
Oof Ably not looking so good suddenly..
Also they come with reliable message delivery built in (pusher doesn’t I think). Not really sure how it compares to this project.
Anyways just a happy user of ably, used it at work.
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The creator of Soketi here. Even if I have 50-100 concurrent connections on most of the projects, I don't wanna be throttled by how many messages I can distribute to my end users - I might have < 100 users, but maybe I have to distribute fresh updates each 5 seconds, what do I do?
You use a stack which supports it. Elixir and Erlang support millions of concurrent websocket connections on a single, albeit beefy, server. https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...
> Written on top of C, ported to Node.js. I think what they mean is it uses uWebSockets.js, a Node.js module wrapping a C++ implementation. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
If you want a really fast cheap websockets server that scales to 250,000 cc on a single node, I wrote xtomp.tp23.org using nginx as a base. Its a STOMP protocol server written in non-blocking C. +web sockets. There is no code required in the nginx part because it implements stomp topics and queues. If you want code, it plugs into a rust based stomp server talking reverse STOMP protocol, so you can code all you like i…
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The library is built on top of uWebsockets which is fairly well-known as being highly optimised and performant, especially if you skip the Node.js wrapper and use the underlying C/C++ lib directly. Does anyone know what tradeoffs or different performance characteristics one would expect to see from e.g. Elixir/Erlang vs uWebsockets?
Elixir/Erlang are surely slower but the BEAM is a fantastic runtime and compensates with fault-tolerance and predictable performance. I know I prefer my server to be as responsive at 1 million connections as at 1 hundred.
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That 5$ instance will cover 90% of the needs of 90% of the businesses out there. You. Are. Not. Google/Facebook/Netflix/TikTok.
> You. Are. Not. Google/Facebook/Netflix/TikTok. That cannot be repeated enough. 90% of the tech flaunted here on HN is interesting only on a technical level, never in a business setting. I suspect Google released Kubernetes to hamstring all competition. You do not need it. Unless you're Google.