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Faye
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Faye

#163in Platform as a Service
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What is Faye?

Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser.

Faye is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Faye Pros & Cons

Pros of Faye

  • ✓Simple
  • ✓Node.js
  • ✓Open source
  • ✓BAYEUX Protocol (not proprietary)
  • ✓Real-time
  • ✓Ruby (EventMachine)
  • ✓Scalable

Cons of Faye

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Faye Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Faye?

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.

Socket.IO

Socket.IO

It enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It works on every platform, browser or device, focusing equally on reliability and speed.

ws

ws

It is a simple to use, blazing fast, and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation.

SignalR

SignalR

SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

Pusher

Pusher

Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

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.

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Thierry Schellenbach
Thierry Schellenbach

CEO at Stream

Sep 13, 2018

Needs adviceonGolangGolangRedisRedisFayeFaye

Our real time infrastructure is based on Golang , Redis and the excellent gorilla websocket library. It implements the Bayeux protocol.

In terms of architecture it’s very similar to the node based Faye library. It was interesting to read the “Ditching Go for Node.js” post on Hacker News. The author moves from Go to Node to improve performance. We actually did the exact opposite and moved from Node to Go for our real time system. The new Go-based infrastructure handles 8x the traffic per node. #InMemoryDatabases #RealtimeBackendApi #ApplicationHosting #Languages #DataStores

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