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centrifuge
Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.
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Bugs Fuel Open-Source Community
During the last 10 years I was driving the development of Centrifugo, an open-source real-time messaging server. I've spent years building, maintaining, and obsessing over this project — and in that time, a thought has kept creeping into my brain:
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Centrifugo v6 released – major update of scalable WebSocket server written in Go
Hi everyone!
I'd like to share that we've just released Centrifugo v6 - a major update of scalable WebSocket server. The release addresses some usability pain points and adds nice features and more observability.
Centrifugo is an open-source standalone server written in Go – https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo. Centrifugo can instantly deliver messages to application online users connected over supported transports (WebSocket, HTTP-streaming, Server-Sent Events (EventSource), GRPC, WebTransport). Centrifugo has the concept of a channel – so it's a user-facing PUB/SUB server. Everything implemented in a language-agnostic way – so Centrifugo can be used in combination with any frontend or backend stack.
These days we also provide Centrifugo PRO version – and trying to find a balance to be sustainable.
The server is based on the open-source Centrifuge library - https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge, so many improvements mentioned in Centrifugo v6 release blog post (even those for Centrifugo PRO) may be used just as a library in Go application.
We provide real-time SDKs for popular client environments – for browser and mobile development – they connect to both Centrifuge library based servers and Centrifugo server.
Generally Centrifugal ecosystem provides a good alternative to Socket.IO and cloud services like Pusher.com and Ably.com
Will be happy to answer on any questions
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Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
Cool didn’t know this. I used a similar solution called Centrifugo for a while. It allows you to choose which transport to use (ws, sse, others)
https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo
- Centrifugo – self-hosted real-time messaging solution
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WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
Hello, I am author of https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo. Our users can choose from WebSocket, EventSource, WebTransport (experimental stabilize in the future). WebRTC is out of scope as the main purpose is central server based real-time json/binary messaging, and WebRTC makes things much more complex since it shines for peer-to-peer and rich media communications.
What I'd like to add is that Centrifugo also supports HTTP-streaming – not mentioned by the OP – but this is a transport which has advantages over Eventsource - like possibility to send POST body on initial request from web browser (with SSE you can not), it supports binary, and with Readable Streams browser API it's widely supported by modern browsers.
Another thing I'd like to mention about Centrifugo - it supports bidirectional WebSocket fallbacks with EventSource and HTTP-streaming, and does this without sticky sessions requirement. I guess nobody else have this at this point. See https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2022/07/19/centrifugo-v4-releas.... Which solves one more practical concern. Sticky sessions is an optimization in Centrifugo case, not a requirement.
If you are interested in topic, we also have a post about WebSocket scalability - https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2020/11/12/scaling-websocket - it covers some design decisions made in Centrifugo.
- Centrifugo v5.1.0 released, with new powers for real-time messaging tasks, now with proxy GRPC subscription streams – similar to WebSocketd but over the network
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Integrating websockets into my current app
Check out https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - it was initially designed to be a standalone language-agnostic real-time messaging server. So it may be used with Django without radical change in the existing application and using ASGI. It can also provide a much better performance if you care about it.
- Millions of Active WebSockets with Node.js
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Show HN: DriftDB is an open source WebSocket back end for real-time apps
https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo
It's a complete solution, including server, admin panel and client library.
We're an European company and use OVH, Hetzner and others.
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Laravel Websockets vs Soketi vs Laravel Echo Server
Hello! Theoretically you can take a look at https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - which is a standalone self-hosted real-time messaging server. It does not have native support for Laravel and not compatible with Pusher protocol, though integrating with any backend system, including Laravel: see the blog post https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2021/12/14/laravel-multi-room-chat-tutorial, also has some helper packages:
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centrifugal/centrifugo is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Centrifugo is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Centrifugo is Go.
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