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Alternatives to Google Cloud Messaging

Firebase, Amazon SNS, RabbitMQ, Apple Push Notification Service, and MQTT are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Google Cloud Messaging.
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What is Google Cloud Messaging and what are its top alternatives?

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client apps. This includes downstream messages from servers to client apps, and upstream messages from client apps to servers.
Google Cloud Messaging is a tool in the Mobile Push Messaging category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Google Cloud Messaging

  • Firebase
    Firebase

    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds. ...

  • Amazon SNS
    Amazon SNS

    Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint. ...

  • RabbitMQ
    RabbitMQ

    RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received. ...

  • Apple Push Notification Service
    Apple Push Notification Service

    It is the centerpiece of the remote notifications feature. It is a robust, secure, and highly efficient service for app developers to propagate information to iOS (and, indirectly, watchOS), tvOS, and macOS devices. ...

  • MQTT
    MQTT

    It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium. ...

  • Firebase Cloud Messaging
    Firebase Cloud Messaging

    It is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. You can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app. ...

  • Pushwoosh
    Pushwoosh

    Free unlimited cross platform push notifications! iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Phonegap, Unity, Marmalade, Adobe Air - we support them all! Easy integration, open-source SDK. ...

  • Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform

    It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. ...

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    Mobile friendly
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    Super fast development
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    The concurrent updates create a great experience
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    Push notification
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    I can quickly create static web apps with no backend
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    Great all-round functionality
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    Free authentication solution
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    Google's support
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Stephen Gheysens
Lead Solutions Engineer at Inscribe · | 14 upvotes · 1.8M views

Hi Otensia! I'd definitely recommend using the skills you've already got and building with JavaScript is a smart way to go these days. Most platform services have JavaScript/Node SDKs or NPM packages, many serverless platforms support Node in case you need to write any backend logic, and JavaScript is incredibly popular - meaning it will be easy to hire for, should you ever need to.

My advice would be "don't reinvent the wheel". If you already have a skill set that will work well to solve the problem at hand, and you don't need it for any other projects, don't spend the time jumping into a new language. If you're looking for an excuse to learn something new, it would be better to invest that time in learning a new platform/tool that compliments your knowledge of JavaScript. For this project, I might recommend using Netlify, Vercel, or Google Firebase to quickly and easily deploy your web app. If you need to add user authentication, there are great examples out there for Firebase Authentication, Auth0, or even Magic (a newcomer on the Auth scene, but very user friendly). All of these services work very well with a JavaScript-based application.

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Eugene Cheah

For inboxkitten.com, an opensource disposable email service;

We migrated our serverless workload from Cloud Functions for Firebase to CloudFlare workers, taking advantage of the lower cost and faster-performing edge computing of Cloudflare network. Made possible due to our extremely low CPU and RAM overhead of our serverless functions.

If I were to summarize the limitation of Cloudflare (as oppose to firebase/gcp functions), it would be ...

  1. <5ms CPU time limit
  2. Incompatible with express.js
  3. one script limitation per domain

Limitations our workload is able to conform with (YMMV)

For hosting of static files, we migrated from Firebase to CommonsHost

More details on the trade-off in between both serverless providers is in the article

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Amazon SNS

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Fully managed push messaging service
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PROS OF AMAZON SNS
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    Low cost
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    Supports multi subscribers
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    Cyril Duchon-Doris

    We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

    • Managing AWS backups
    • Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
    • Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
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    Ravi Sathanapalli
    Director Product Management at Centime · | 7 upvotes · 134.2K views
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    TwilioTwilioAmazon SNSAmazon SNS

    Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

    We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

    We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

    What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

    Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

    Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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    RabbitMQ

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    Open source multiprotocol messaging broker
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      It's fast and it works with good metrics/monitoring
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      Ease of configuration
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      I like the admin interface
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      Easy to set-up and start with
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      Durable
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      Standard protocols
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      Intuitive work through python
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      Written primarily in Erlang
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      Simply superb
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      Completeness of messaging patterns
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      Reliable
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      Scales to 1 million messages per second
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      Better than most traditional queue based message broker
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      Distributed
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      Supports MQTT
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      Supports AMQP
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      Clear documentation with different scripting language
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      Inubit Integration
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      Too complicated cluster/HA config and management
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      Needs Erlang runtime. Need ops good with Erlang runtime
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      Configuration must be done first, not by your code
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      Slow

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    James Cunningham
    Operations Engineer at Sentry · | 18 upvotes · 1.8M views
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    As Sentry runs throughout the day, there are about 50 different offline tasks that we execute—anything from “process this event, pretty please” to “send all of these cool people some emails.” There are some that we execute once a day and some that execute thousands per second.

    Managing this variety requires a reliably high-throughput message-passing technology. We use Celery's RabbitMQ implementation, and we stumbled upon a great feature called Federation that allows us to partition our task queue across any number of RabbitMQ servers and gives us the confidence that, if any single server gets backlogged, others will pitch in and distribute some of the backlogged tasks to their consumers.

    #MessageQueue

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    Yogesh Bhondekar
    Product Manager | SaaS | Traveller · | 16 upvotes · 436.1K views

    Hi, I am building an enhanced web-conferencing app that will have a voice/video call, live chats, live notifications, live discussions, screen sharing, etc features. Ref: Zoom.

    I need advise finalizing the tech stack for this app. I am considering below tech stack:

    • Frontend: React
    • Backend: Node.js
    • Database: MongoDB
    • IAAS: #AWS
    • Containers & Orchestration: Docker / Kubernetes
    • DevOps: GitLab, Terraform
    • Brokers: Redis / RabbitMQ

    I need advice at the platform level as to what could be considered to support concurrent video streaming seamlessly.

    Also, please suggest what could be a better tech stack for my app?

    #SAAS #VideoConferencing #WebAndVideoConferencing #zoom #stack

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    Apple Push Notification Service

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          Easy to configure in an unsecure manner

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        Kindly suggest the best tool for generating 10Mn+ concurrent user load. The tool must support MQTT traffic, REST API, support to interfaces such as Kafka, websockets, persistence HTTP connection, auth type support to assess the support /coverage.

        The tool can be integrated into CI pipelines like Azure Pipelines, GitHub, and Jenkins.

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        MQTTMQTTReductStoreReductStore

        You can use ReductStore to keep a history of MQTT messages by using its Client SDKs. This can be useful if you use a binary format for your data and it can be recorded in a classical TSDB. You can set a FIFO quota for a bucket in your ReductStore instance so that the database removes old MQTT messages when the limit is reached.

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        Firebase Cloud Messaging

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          Lack of BI tools

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        Pushwoosh

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            Demetrius Tautu

            If you need a free to use push notification service as an alternative to OneSignal PushCrew Pushwoosh PushBots , DigitalPUSH might be the right decision. - DigitalPUSH is free to use - Unlimited subscribers - Unlimited push notifications - No data collection / distribution - Segmentation - API - Scheduling - WordPress plugin

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            Google Cloud Platform

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              waheed khan
              Associate Java Developer at txtsol · | 11 upvotes · 63.7K views

              I want to make application like Zomato, #Foodpanda.

              Which stack is best for this? As I have expertise in Java and Angular. What is the best stack you will recommend?

              Web Micro-service / Mono? Angular / React? Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Google Cloud Platform? DB : SQL or No SQL

              Mob Cross-platform: React Native / Flutter

              Note: We are a team of 5. what languages do you recommend if I go with microservices?

              Thanks

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              My days of using Firebase are over! I want to move to something scalable and possibly less cheap. In the past seven days I have done my research on what type of DB best fits my needs, and have chosen to go with the nonrelational DB; MongoDB. Although I understand it, I need help understanding how to set up the architecture. I have the client app (Flutter/ Dart) that would make HTTP requests to the web server (node/express), and from there the webserver would query data from MongoDB.

              How should I go about hosting the web server and MongoDb; do they have to be hosted together (this is where a lot of my confusion is)? Based on the research I've done, it seems like the standard practice would be to host on a VM provided by services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc. If there are better ways, such as possibly self-hosting (more responsibility), should I? Anyways, I just want to confirm with a community (you guys) to make sure I do this right, all input is highly appreciated.

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