Sockety - blazing fast communication protocol

Overview

The Sockety protocol has performance in mind, and is used for P2P communication between workers - sending commands, data and files between them.

The overhead is cut to minimum, to improve performance and reduce transfer.

Features

• Multiplexing
  • Allows up to 4096 concurrent read/write channels
• UUIDs built in the protocol
  • Every message will have UUID by design
• Real-time streams
  • Every message may attach a stream of any kind of data
• Files
  • Message has a concept of files - file with known name, size and contents
• Payload
  • Message may contain additional payload bytes
• Flexible responses
  • Message doesn't need to get any response, yet may get multiple
  • The response may be either just a lightweight code (FastReply - 0-4095 code), or a full-scale message (Response with data, files and/or stream)

Links

• Specification - protocol specification
• Node.js implementation - TypeScript/JavaScript implementation of client/server