SocketCluster.io
Infrastructure
real-time server
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
3 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Performance: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Stable and performant compared with socket.io for conferencing
From 1 comment
From personal experience -- switching from socket.io to socketcluster.io for our conferencing platform was a life saver. Its so much more stable & performant its crazy. We also…
sudovoodoo on HN
Easier to adopt than building own pub/sub stack
From 1 comment
I'm the main author of SC. Your system does sound similar to SC - It seems to be a pretty standard realtime architecture - Those who started building their realtime systems with…
cryptica on HN
Objections
Node.js bottleneck at very high chat scale
From 1 comment
I tried SocketCluster for a highly scalable chat platform and it couldn't handle very big conversations. SocketCluster is good but the bottleneck here was NodeJS. I finnaly used…
geekuillaume on HN
Unclear what it adds over socket.io
From 1 comment
This seems very impressive, but I wonder why we would want to switch to it from socket.io in our use case. We have built an open source platform that takes care of all the usual…
EGreg on HN
Polling is sufficient for many use cases
From 1 comment
Interesting these are coming around now. Some services (i.e. Pubnub) have been doing this (for money) for a long time and what I noticed were at the end of the day, the use cases…
jontammeh on HN
Requests
Elasticsearch support
From 1 comment
Does this support Elasticsearch?
jzig on HN
Migration guidance from socket.io
From 1 comment
I'm curious because I have a relatively new socket.io based application (we went into production in the last month). How difficult is the migration path? (If it's something i can…
Gratsby on HN
Questions
How is it different from the similar Show HN project?
From 1 comment
How is this different than this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071916
0xADADA on HN
How does it compare to Phoenix channels?
From 1 comment
Does phoenix's / elixir channels compare with this well?
dfischer on HN
How does it compare to NATS?
From 1 comment
I wonder if socket.io can be mixed with this for use with client-server side (for its polling fallback options) while using SocketCluster for server-server scaling side. Also,…
zevrox on HN
Does it require a database?
From 1 comment
Does SC require the need for a DB?
jadbox on HN
Alternatives named
socket.io
From 1 comment
From personal experience -- switching from socket.io to socketcluster.io for our conferencing platform was a life saver. Its so much more stable & performant its crazy. We also…
sudovoodoo on HN
Nginx PushStream
From 1 comment
I tried SocketCluster for a highly scalable chat platform and it couldn't handle very big conversations. SocketCluster is good but the bottleneck here was NodeJS. I finnaly used…
geekuillaume on HN
Phoenix channels
From 1 comment
Does phoenix's / elixir channels compare with this well?
dfischer on HN
NATS
From 1 comment
I wonder if socket.io can be mixed with this for use with client-server side (for its polling fallback options) while using SocketCluster for server-server scaling side. Also,…
zevrox on HN
Pubnub
From 1 comment
Interesting these are coming around now. Some services (i.e. Pubnub) have been doing this (for money) for a long time and what I noticed were at the end of the day, the use cases…
jontammeh on HN