AnyCable
Real-time WebSocket server for in-app messaging
AnyCable is a real-time messaging server that delivers events to web and mobile clients over WebSockets and is a high-performance drop-in for Rails Action Cable. It scales pub/sub to many connections.
Key features
- WebSocket pub/sub
- Drop-in for Rails Action Cable
- Scales to many connections
- gRPC backend protocol
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (2.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
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