dtannen/satellite

Large scale message broadcasting using SSE

Satellite

Go app to broadcast messages to all connected web clients using SSE and Redis PubSub

Installation

Or:

1. Install Redis - http://redis.io/download
2. go get github.com/runway7/satellite

Configuration

1. TOKEN: An authentication token that you'll use you broadcast a message
2. REDIS_URL: The URL of your Redis installation
3. REDIS_URL_KEY: If you use a hosting provider that sets your Redis URL environment variable under another name, like REDIGO_URL, set this to the name of the variable.

Subscribe to a channel / Listen for messages

Create a GET request to /channel

Broadcast a message

Create a POST request to /channel with token and message as parameters values. Channels that do not exist are created on the fly.

Satellite app uses Strobe for channel fan-out, Redigo to pass messages between servers, and SSE for SSE formatting.