SocketCluster/socketcluster
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Highly scalable realtime pub/sub and RPC framework
24 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 11 stories, 13 comments · first 2014-04-07 · latest 2026-04-20
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My project https://github.com/socketCluster/socketcluster has been accumulating stars slowly but steadily over about 13 years. Now it has over 6k stars but it doesn't seem to mean much nowadays as a metric. It sucks having put in the…
comment by socketcluster · 2026-04-20 · in GitHub's fake star economy -
…it up in parts and brought the parts together over time. SocketCluster has over 6k stars on GitHub. https://github.com/socketCluster/socketcluster Saasufy itself isn't open source. I'm planning to sell licenses of the code (a limited…
comment by socketcluster · 2026-03-22 · in Some things just take time -
…with a single command. SC has been able to auto-scale on Kubernetes for almost one year now. See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/blob/master/s... You're right that neither SC not Deepstream support long polling fallbacks but…
comment by jondubois · 2017-08-09 · in Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web -
…tool to deploy it automatically to any Kubernetes cluster: https://www.npmjs.com/package/baasil See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/blob/master/s...
comment by jondubois · 2017-07-13 · in How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users -
…and autoscale on Kubernetes - I actually did that with my open source project SocketCluster. See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/blob/master/s... I think that standardisation should happen at the level of the stack/component…
comment by jondubois · 2016-10-24 · in Cloud Native Application Interfaces -
I did that for my open source project SocketCluster. See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/tree/master/k... Also, if you look at the main Kubernetes repo on GitHub, you can find the yaml files for various popular open source…
comment by jondubois · 2016-09-09 · in Why Kubernetes is winning the container war -
…source projects start to become 'built for Kubernetes' - I already did this with my own project https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster and I know lots of big open source developers who are also doing the same.…
comment by jondubois · 2016-08-24 · in Docker isn't serverless -
…who want to write code on top of that framework don't need to think (much) about parallelism (see https://github.com/socketcluster/socketcluster#introducing-s... ). Unfortunately, you cannot build a highly scalable system without enforcing…
comment by jondubois · 2016-08-10 · in Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages -
…and Kubernetes config files to make running SC on a distributed Kubernetes cluster super easy. See https://github.com/socketcluster/socketcluster#introducing-s... I think there will come a point when most open source stacks will be…
comment by jondubois · 2016-08-08 · in Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013) -
…a self-hosted user-facing pub/sub solution, there are only two popular options: - SocketCluster https://github.com/socketcluster/socketcluster - Faye https://github.com/faye/faye Both Faye and SocketCluster are good at handling lots of…
comment by jondubois · 2016-03-15 · in DIY Meteor-like Realtime Functionality Using Socket.io and RethinkDB Changefeeds -
…with my career. I owe it to everyone who clicked that star button on Github to keep going. GitHub: https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster Website: http://socketcluster.io/
comment by jondubois · 2015-11-30 · in How I stay happy making open source software -
…I imagine the thinking there is similar in your project, eg: Redis/CurioDB :: Node/SocketCluster ( https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster ).
comment by stephen_mcd · 2015-08-16 · in Show HN: CurioDB – A distributed/persistent Redis clone built with Scala/Akka -
…with all your arguments. I even have a project to back you up (it's Node.js multi-process based): https://github.com/topcloud/socketcluster - It scales linearly. I just ran a benchmark on a 16-core machine and was able to reach 126k…
comment by jonpress · 2014-07-06 · in Costs of multi-process architectures