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Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs ws: What are the differences?
Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data. Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet; ws: A Node.js WebSocket library. It is a simple to use, blazing fast, and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub and ws can be primarily classified as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
ws is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ws's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Easy to set-up and start with9
- A great choice for microservice architecture2
- Efficient and practical for complex systems2
Pros of ws
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Cons of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Need integration with stackdriver for monitoring2