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Fast, horizontally scalable, multiprocess pub/sub queuing server and proxy for HTTP, long-polling, Websockets and EventSource (SSE), powered by Nginx.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2009-10-16 · latest 2025-01-02

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  1. Also I could recommend https://github.com/slact/nchan . It has the same idea: hide and abstract pubsub complexity for a backend service. nchan is built on top of nginx and could be more convenient (existing nginx configuration knowledge)…
    comment by bvrmn · 2025-01-02 · in Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events
  2. How about NChan? https://github.com/slact/nchan It is an nginx extension, that has supports all types of clients, channels, multiplexing, introspection, tens of thosuands connects, etc.
    comment by Inviz · 2022-03-24 · in Ask HN: What is your recommended stack for real time chat?
  3. …not know about this module. Instead, we are using a pretty identical one [1]. Works flawlessly [1] https://github.com/slact/nchan
    comment by fasteo · 2019-10-11 · in 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)
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    Nchan: Fast, horizontally scalable, multiprocess pubsub queuing server and proxy
    story by hexalisk · 2016-10-06 · 0 comments
  5. …many vulns. In the distant future: a web scraper that analyzes the CVEs/NVDs automatically. nchan: https://github.com/slact/nchan/blob/master/changelog.txt (an Nginx module) And some JS libraries: markdown-it, sanitize-html, React.js, +…
    comment by KajMagnus · 2016-09-01 · in Ask HN: Which security vulnerability feeds should I Monitor?
  6. …(I can not see backing lists in the redis store implementation in store.c) Dig a little deeper... https://github.com/slact/nchan/blob/master/src/store/redis/s... I used lua scripts for all the fancy redis logic, that's where you'll find…
    comment by slact · 2015-12-07 · in Show HN: Nchan – a pub/sub server as an Nginx module
  7. I'm thinking about giving this a try: http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module
    comment by slig · 2010-03-25 · in Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets
  8. I just had some time to scan your repository on GitHub and noticed this: http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module/commit/6823f7... Though it just looks like a stub for now. Also, I read the following here:…
    comment by bham · 2009-11-23 · in Nginx HTTP Push Module
  9. Site isn't working for me, but the github url is http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module
    comment by danfitch · 2009-11-19 · in Nginx HTTP Push Module
  10. Site isn't working for me, but the github url is http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module
    comment by danfitch · 2009-11-19 · in Nginx HTTP Push Module
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    Nginx module to turn it into a long-polling message queuing HTTP push server.
    story by labria · 2009-10-16 · 25 comments