Great to see this. Being able to run your own Pusher-compatible server sounds quite useful for dev environments or internal usage. Is Poxa endorsed by Pusher at all?
FWIW, our company, Fanout (https://fanout.io), is similar to Pusher except we decided to open source our own code to be good citizens. No need for the community to reverse engineer anything. ;)
Since there are already a bunch of open source "push" servers (Socket.io, Faye, Firehose, etc), I assumed the main draw of Poxa would be to use as a substitution for the official Pusher cloud service depending on deployment scenarios.
Of course, someone could certainly use Poxa without any intention of ever using Pusher.com. The protocol features & client libraries are very nice.
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There a few (including this) OSS Pusher clones available if you prefer other languages:
Ruby - Slanger* (https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger)
Java/Play - PushPlay (https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay)
*Disclosure: I am one of the authors of Slanger.
Great to see this. Being able to run your own Pusher-compatible server sounds quite useful for dev environments or internal usage. Is Poxa endorsed by Pusher at all?
FWIW, our company, Fanout (https://fanout.io), is similar to Pusher except we decided to open source our own code to be good citizens. No need for the community to reverse engineer anything. ;)
Yeah they "endorse" if you consider they published a link to Poxa here: http://blog.pusher.com/pusher-community-libraries-highlights...
Thanks for pointing out Fanout. Looks like a nice product/project.
Props to them for blogging about their open-source competitors.
Why couldn't this be used for production usage? Especially for applications where loss of real time isn't a big deal ?
Since there are already a bunch of open source "push" servers (Socket.io, Faye, Firehose, etc), I assumed the main draw of Poxa would be to use as a substitution for the official Pusher cloud service depending on deployment scenarios.
Of course, someone could certainly use Poxa without any intention of ever using Pusher.com. The protocol features & client libraries are very nice.
This looks like its easier to setup right?