PushPlay

A Pusher service clone for the Play! Framework

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What it is

A Pusher service clone for the Play! Framework

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Observed mentions: 2011-12-21 17:13:45 UTC to 2014-04-20 03:27:00 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Dec 2011	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Jan 2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Feb 2012	2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Mar 2012	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2012	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
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Jun 2012	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2012	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2012	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2012	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2012	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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Dec 2012	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2013	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2013	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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Jun 2013	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2013	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2013	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2013	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2013	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2013	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2013	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2014	2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2014	2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2014	2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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sjtgraham·Apr 20, 2014

There a few (including this) OSS Pusher clones available if you prefer other languages: Ruby - Slanger* (https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger) Java/Play - PushPlay (https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay) *Disclosure: I am one of the authors of Slanger.

In Poxa: A Pusher clone with a real-time Console

djb_hackernews·Apr 10, 2012

I also built my own Pusher compatible clone, https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay which is built on the Play! framework. Not recommended for production deployments, yet.

In Show HN: Run your own Push/Pull service for free using node.js + socket.io

djb_hackernews·Feb 7, 2012

Pusher-like service implementations are very easy, I know, I've built one[1] and there are others[2]! If you have any questions, feel free to email me. [1] https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay [2] https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger

In Square Releases Open Source WebSocket Client for Objective-C

djb_hackernews·Jan 19, 2012

Great write up. Hopefully that ephemeral data in Redis can scale. They could have used something like Pusher for about half of their implementation (the websockets, message pushing, polling, etc) I bring this up because I built an OSS Pusher clone[1], for those people that want to deploy their own, built on the Play! framework. [1] https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay

In The Trello Tech Stack

djb_hackernews·Dec 21, 2011Submission

PushPlay: An(other) open implementation of the Pusher protocol

PushPlay is another implementation of the Pusher protocol (http://pusher.com, use them! They have a great service!) but it is written as a module for the Play! Framework. Can be added to an existing Play project or just run standalone in an empty Play project. Very easy. The Pusher protocol is a websockets based event/messaging service. PushPlay uses the same exact javascript library that pusher uses, only with different connection parameters. This may look familiar, a few days ago Stevie Graham posted about Slanger, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359097 which is has the same aim, but for different platforms. (You can see my excitement when I stumbled on his post considering the goals of our projects). It is just a fun side project, and was made really easy thanks to the Play! framework architecture. Still some things to work out, b

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ut those should be fun problems as well. Let me know what you think!

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