The History and Future of Socket-level Multiplexing

• localtunnel

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  Expose localhost servers to the Internet (by progrium)

If you've ever used Ngrok to open a public endpoint to a localhost server, you may not know it was one of several clones of a tool I made in 2010 called localtunnel. The original localtunnel was just a wrapper around SSH, literally using OpenSSH on the server side.

• qmux

  4 223 0.0 Go

  wire protocol for multiplexing connections or streams into a single connection, based on a subset of the SSH Connection Protocol

If nothing else, I hope people use this story as inspiration to think about using multiplexing to design better, simpler application protocols. Even if for some reason QUIC isn't the future, you now have qmux!

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• webtransport

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  WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport

  

It's taken nearly 10 years for QUIC to be refined and adopted in the wild and we're basically there. There's even a new browser API in the works called WebTransport.

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