SocketCluster Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• The Sound of Software

  Recently, I added an AI-generated soundtrack to my open source project's home page https://socketcluster.io/ It seems unconventional at first but I distinctly remember about a decade ago when Adobe Flash was still broadly supported, many Flash websites had soundtracks. I think the reason why regular HTML websites didn't have them was because it was difficult to implement and internet was much slower so they had to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software

  I wrote an async/await stream library for JavaScript/Node.js which supports backpressure management. It's heavily tested and used as part of SocketCluster (pub/sub SDK) https://socketcluster.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Is it a good practice to store web sockets connections on redis?

  If redis doesn't satisfy your requirements or you're unable to make it work using adaptor, SocketCluster is a great package for this https://socketcluster.io/. Source: 10 months ago

• Why messaging is much better than REST for inter-microservice communications

  Interesting how this feature set is pretty much exactly the same as offered by SocketCluster https://socketcluster.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• On the Unhappiness of Software Developers

  This resonates with me 100%. Every bit of unhappiness I've felt in my career so far has been caused by a bad manager. The main issue for me has been the final point you mentioned about "Imposed artificial limitations" - I cannot tell you the number of times that I've been forced to use an inefficient tool or do something in a sub-optimal or downright incorrect way (knowing that it would have to be re-written... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Looking for real-time message solution recommendations

  The two best lightweight solutions I have worked with are SocketCluster and NATS. SocketCluster is used to build out a custom backend that scales very well. NATS would be used as a central pub/sub system. If you need queueing, you'll need to add additional services like Redis. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to define RPC server with SocketCluster.

  In the homepage for SocketCluster it is mentioned that it is a Highly scalable pub/sub and RPC framework optimized for async/await. However in the documentation I have not found anything related to RPC. Am I interpreting anything wrong here? Source: about 2 years ago

• Top WebSocket libraries for Node.js in 2022

  SocketCluster is a highly scalable framework and a real-time HTTP server engine that enables you to build multi-process, real-time servers using all of the available CPU cores at once. With SocketCluster, the backend avoids running the Node.js server as a single thread, working more efficiently and remaining resilient. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago