Centrifugo Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Woe be onto you for using a WebSocket
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2021

  Every time I read criticism of WebSockets it reminds me about WebSuckets (https://speakerdeck.com/3rdeden/websuckets) presentation :)

  I am the author of Centrifugo server (https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo) - where the main protocol is WebSocket. Agree with many points in post – and if there is a chance to build sth without replacing stateless HTTP to persistent WebSocket (or EventSource, HTTP-streaming, raw TCP etc) – then definitely better to go without persistent connections.

  But there are many tasks where WebSockets simply shine – by providing a better UX, providing a more interactive content, instant information/feedback. This is important to keep - even if underlying stack is complicated enough. Not every system need to scale to many machines (ex. multiplayer games with limited number of players), corporate apps not really struggle from massive reconnect scenarios, and so on. So WebSockets are definitely fine for certain scenarios IMO.

  I described some problems with WebSockets Centrifugo solves in this blog post - https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2020/11/12/scaling-websocket. I don't want to say there are no problems, I want to say that WebSockets are fine in general and we can do some things to deal with things mentioned in the OP's post.

• Centrifugo – self-hosted real-time messaging server with bidirectional (WebSocket, SockJS) and unidirectional transports (Eventsource, HTTP-streaming, GRPC), JSON and Protobuf protocols, builtin scalability with PUB/SUB brokers, fully universal/language-agnostic.
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 22 Dec 2021
• Show HN: Centrifugo – self-hosted real-time messaging server written in Go
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021
• Updating flutter app data from REST API in real-time
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/flutterhelp | 22 Nov 2021

  Install Centrifugo - https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo

• Websockets and Django Channels
  1 project | reddit.com/r/django | 22 Nov 2021

  We had a Django-based backend when building an intranet site for a pretty big company (~4k employees) and used https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo for delivering real-time updates to users. We had chat widgets, live counters, live comment system, also several corporate multiplayer games based on it. I think it's much more simple to understand and integrate with than Django Channels, more transports supported and scales better. So maybe give it a chance if you are not happy with Channels.

• GoReleaser v1.0.0 is out!
  1 project | reddit.com/r/golang | 14 Nov 2021

  Using Goreleaser for https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo, amazing project – many thanks for it. It allowed us to quickly integrate multi-arch Docker builds recently. There was once a problem where we got faced with backwards compatibility issue during release workflow caused by some deprecation stuff removed from Goreleaser - but that was our mistake to not use a tagged version.

• Just another simple, fast, and resilient open-source WebSockets server. 📣
  5 projects | reddit.com/r/laravel | 14 Nov 2021

  For those who looking into Laravel WebSockets replacement give a chance to https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - it proved to help a lot dealing with WebSocket connections to backends built in languages without native/performant concurrency support. So you can continue writing business logic in Laravel, but let Centrifugo deal with persistent connection management and issue real-time updates over API.

• Django Hosting w/ Websockets
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/django | 28 Oct 2021

  You could run a Centrifugo websockets server on Heroku and manage the websockets with django-instant without having to change your actual hosting

• Centrifugo – scalable real-time messaging server. Handles WebSocket, EventSource, GRPC, HTTP-streaming and SockJS connections, manages channel subscriptions. Provides API to publish messages into channels. Integrates well with any stack.
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/coding | 24 Sep 2021
• Django channels vs websockets with Starlette/fastAPI ?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/django | 24 May 2021

  Hello, take a look at https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - it was designed to work with frameworks like Django in non-obtrusive way so you don't really need to change existing system a lot. There is an example of integration with Django - https://github.com/centrifugal/examples/tree/master/django - pretty old but should help with a general idea.

• Are php/laravel websockets as efficient as node.Js ?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/PHP | 2 May 2021

  Take a look at https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - this should provide enough performance and scalability for most apps and you can still use any language you like for backend business logic.

• scalable real-time messaging for django
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/django | 25 Apr 2021
• what should I use to make a realtime chat?
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/golang | 25 Apr 2021
• Which self hosted Pub/Sub realtime technology (websockets etc) do you use and why?
  5 projects | reddit.com/r/node | 1 Apr 2021

  I can find socket.io, faye, deepstream.io , autobahn-js and nchan, centrifugo. Can you also explain why you chose it and if you had troubles with some other solution?

• What web framework should i use with a focus on streaming data?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 14 Mar 2021

  Hello, maybe take a look at Centrifugo - https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - it runs as a separate service so you can just publish your data to Centrifugo via HTTP and data will be delivered to connected clients subscribed on a channel. `centrifugo --client_insecure` will let you disable all authentication checks for quick prototyping (`client_insecure` option **is not safe** for production usage though).