Highly scalable Real-time messaging library for Golang


Centrifuge library is a real-time core of the Centrifugo server. It’s also a general-purpose real-time messaging library for Golang programming language. The library is built on top of a strict client-server protocol schema and exposes various real-time oriented primitives for a developer. Centrifuge solves several problems a developer may encounter when building complex real-time applications – like scalability (millions of connections), proper persistent connection management and invalidation, fast reconnect with message recovery and WebSocket fallback option.

Golang Library highlights

  • Fast and optimized for low-latency communication with millions of client connections. See test stand with 1 million connections in Kubernetes
  • Built-in bidirectional transports: WebSocket (JSON or binary Protobuf) and SockJS (JSON only)
  • Possibility to use unidirectional transports without using custom Centrifuge client library: see examples for GRPCEventSource(SSE)Fetch StreamsUnidirectional WebSocket
  • Built-in horizontal scalability with Redis PUB/SUB, consistent Redis sharding, Sentinel and Redis Cluster for HA
  • Presence information for channels (show all active clients in a channel)
  • Native authentication over HTTP middleware or custom token-based
  • Channel concept to broadcast message to all active subscribers
  • Client-side and server-side channel subscriptions
  • Bidirectional asynchronous message communication and RPC calls
  • History information for channels (ephemeral streams with size and TTL retention)
  • Join/leave events for channels (aka client goes online/offline)
  • Possibility to register a custom PUB/SUB Broker and Presence Manager implementations
  • Message recovery mechanism for channels to survive PUB/SUB delivery problems, short network disconnects, or node restart
  • Prometheus instrumentation
  • Client libraries for main application environments (see below)

For bidirectional communication between a client and a Centrifuge-based server, we have a bunch of client libraries:

If you opt for unidirectional communication, you may leverage Centrifuge possibilities without any specific library on the client-side – simply by using native browser API or GRPC-generated code. See examples of unidirectional communication over GRPCEventSource(SSE)Fetch StreamsWebSocket.


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