Centrifuge + Go = Centrifugo – harder, better, faster, stronger.
Centrifugo is a real-time messaging server. This is a successor of Centrifuge. Please note that it can be used in conjuction with your application backend written in any language - Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Javascript, Java, Objective-C etc.
To understand what is it for and how it works – please, read documentation of Centrifugal organization.
Releases available as single executable files – just
download archive for your platform,
unpack it and you are done. See also Docker image.
Try demo instance on Heroku (password demo). Or deploy your own Centrifugo instance in one click:
Highlights:
- Fast server capable to serve lots of simultanious connections
- SHA-256 HMAC-based authorization
- HTTP API to communicate from your application backend (publish messages in channels etc.). API clients for Python, Ruby, PHP. Simple to implement new one.
- Javascript client to connect from web browser over SockJS or pure Websocket protocol
- Presence, history and join/leave events for channels
- Flexible configuration of channels via namespaces
- Different types of channels - private, user limited, client limited channels
- Administrative web interface
- Scale to several machines with Redis
- Ready to deploy (docker, rpm, Nginx configuration)
- Easily integrates with existing application - no need to rewrite your backend code
- MIT license
Simplified scheme:
