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Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably, socket.io, Phoenix.PubSub, SignalR. Set up once and forever.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 11 stories, 10 comments · first 2015-05-25 · latest 2025-07-11

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  1. …reload in infra) – it took up to several minutes for users to reconnect. I suggested switching to https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo with Redis engine (combines PUB/SUB + Redis streams for individual queues) – and it went to 0.3 CPU…
    comment by FZambia · 2025-07-11 · in Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
  2. …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…
    comment by FZambia · 2025-01-16 · in Centrifugo v6 released – major update of scalable WebSocket server written in Go
  3. …called Centrifugo for a while. It allows you to choose which transport to use (ws, sse, others) https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo
    comment by Dren95 · 2024-12-26 · in Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
  4. Hello, I am author of https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo . Our users can choose from WebSocket, EventSource, WebTransport (experimental for now, but will definitely stabilize in the future). WebRTC is out of scope as the main…
    comment by FZambia · 2024-03-20 · in WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
  5. Check out Centrifugal: https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo (Server/Admin) https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge (Server core) https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge-js (Library) It's a complete solution, including server,…
    comment by tmikaeld · 2023-02-21 · in Millions of active WebSockets with Node.js
  6. https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo (Server/Admin) https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge (Server core) https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge-js (Library) It's a complete solution, including server, admin panel and client…
    comment by tmikaeld · 2023-02-05 · in Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps
  7. "Centrifuge" as in https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo ?
    comment by e1g · 2023-02-03 · in Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps
  8. …https://speakerdeck.com/3rdeden/websuckets ) presentation :) I am the author of Centrifugo server ( https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo ) - where the main protocol is WebSocket. Agree with many points in post – and if there is a…
    comment by FZambia · 2021-12-22 · in Woe be unto you for using a WebSocket
  9. Sounds like a usecase for https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo
    comment by cabraca · 2018-08-18 · in Ask HN: Non-SMTP single server internal mail system?
  10. Genuine question, how does this different from https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo ?
    comment by reactor · 2016-09-21 · in Deepstream.io – Open Realtime Server