This very hn entries is bust contradicting your statement. Also what about syncthing[1] (for recurrent/permanent sync) and croc[2] (for one time copies) ? I have used both for a number of years already. [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://github.com/schollz/croc. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Some CLI alternatives if you don't need the GUI: Croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc I used to use MW but switched to croc as the single binary was easier to deploy. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Hacker usually has some kind of relay at hand: https://github.com/nwtgck/piping-server Or a NAT traversal tool: https://github.com/shawwwn/Gole Or can just manually ncat simultaneously from both sides to proper addresses and ports, probably with the help of some public STUN server. Note that if worst case combination of NATs doesn't allow direct connection, then by definition a relay is needed, hacker or... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I have gotten a lot of use out of croc. https://github.com/schollz/croc F-droid has an android app and the cli runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Super pain free. It's not a synchronization solution, but sends stuff pretty easily. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Check out croc, I've been using it for years, and it works pretty great too! https://github.com/schollz/croc. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Take a look at Centrifugo - https://centrifugal.dev/ - it provides a way to build efficient real-time messaging system using standard Django without ASGI involved. Source: 11 months ago

Hello, I am an author of Centrifugo project (https://centrifugal.dev/). It's a WebSocket server which scales using Redis. Instead of the approach you described when every message is delivered to every server Centrifugo uses PUB/SUB in a way that every server subscribed only to channels which current server connections have. It should scale pretty well, and resubscribe to channels is super-efficient. All the load... Source: over 1 year ago

Hello, I am author of Centrifugo (https://centrifugal.dev/) project - WebSocket server which scales with Redis. We have several blog posts which may help to answer your questions and give you some real world numbers about using Redis for WebSocket apps. Some links:. Source: over 1 year ago

Https://centrifugal.dev/ It's go native you can even write your own using it's underlying centrifuge library. We use it currently in Production just the docker container to be honest is what we deploy and just use a small config file or flags. Source: over 1 year ago

Hey folks! Centrifugo is an open-source scalable real-time messaging server written in Go language. It's language-agnostic and can be used to build chat apps, live comments, multiplayer games, real-time data visualizations, collaborative tools, etc. In combination with any backend. Including NodeJS-based backend which is relevant to this subreddit. And while Javascript/Node ecosystem has good WebSocket tools, I... Source: almost 2 years ago