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centrifuge
Go2015–2025
centrifugal / centrifuge

centrifuge

Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.

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What it is

Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-30 07:07:53 UTC to 2025-01-16 10:51:18 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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FZambia·Jan 16, 2025
Hi everyone! I'd like to share that we've just released Centrifugo v6 - a major update of scalable WebSocket server. The release addresses some usability pain points and adds nice features and more observability. Centrifugo is an open-source standalone server written in Go – https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo. Centrifugo can instantly deliver messages to application online users connected over supported transports (WebSocket, HTTP-streaming, Server-Sent Events (EventSource), GRPC, WebTransport). Centrifugo has the concept of a channel – so it's a user-facing PUB/SUB server. Everything implemented in a language-agnostic way – so Centrifugo can be used in combination with any frontend or backend stack. These days we also provide Centrifugo PRO version – and trying to find a balance to be sustainable. The server is based on the open-s
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ource Centrifuge library - https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge, so many improvements mentioned in Centrifugo v6 release blog post (even those for Centrifugo PRO) may be used just as a library in Go application. We provide real-time SDKs for popular client environments – for browser and mobile development – they connect to both Centrifuge library based servers and Centrifugo server. Generally Centrifugal ecosystem provides a good alternative to Socket.IO and cloud services like Pusher.com and Ably.com Will be happy to answer on any questions
In Centrifugo v6 released – major update of scalable WebSocket server written in Go
FZambia·May 25, 2015
Here is a link to Centrifugo – real-time messaging server in Go. This is a central part of Centrifugal stack (http://fzambia.gitbooks.io/centrifugal/content/). It supports Websocket and SockJS client connections. Originally server was written in Python (https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge), but recently the entire code base moved to Go language. This is a server that works as a service – can be used with web sites written in any language. Feedback is highly appreciated.
In Centrifugo – real-time messaging server in Go, supports WebSockets and SockJS

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