Fast & Scalable Front/Back-ends using Ruby, Rails & XMPP
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Fast & Scalable Front/Back-ends using Ruby, Rails & XMPP
- 1. Fast, Scalable Front/Back-end Services using Ruby, Rails and XMPP Pradeep Elankumaran pradeep@intridea.com twitter: @pradeep24
- 3. What is XMPP? • eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol • Message-oriented middleware • XML-based • Various XMPP servers (eJabberd, Openfire, Tigase) • Most known for being the backend for IM systems • xmpp.org
- 4. The GOOD • Open • Standardized by the IETF • Decentralized • Mature • Customizable • FAST!
- 5. The BAD • XML is very verbose • Documentation is not outlined properly • though there are efforts to make this better • Lots of presence data overhead on larger networks • No unmodified binary data transfers
- 6. A Simple XMPP Stanza JID resource <message from=’pradeep@xmpp.org/adium’ to=’zana@xmpp.org’> <body>This is a message</body> </message>
- 7. Some XMPP Features • Presence • Instant Messaging • Publish/Subscribe • Multi-User Chat • Federation • Personal Eventing, and many more...
- 8. The Future
- 9. Publish/Subscribe <iq type=’set’ to=’pubsub.xmpp.org’ from=’me@xmpp.org’> <pubsub xmlns=’http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub’> <publish node=’apples’> <item>Fuji Apples</item> node name the pubsub namespace </publish> </pubsub> </iq> subscriber subscriber subscriber
- 10. Publish / Subscribe • Federated Microblogging using the Personal Eventing Protocol (PEP) • Real-time search • Real-time topic-tracking via multiple communication channels (RSS, IM etc.) • Real-time collaborative editing
- 11. Real-time User Interfaces • BOSH • Robust, lively interfaces for daily use • Javascript-based XMPP clients • Handlers attached to various XMPP stanzas • Present.ly, drop.io
- 12. The Backend
- 13. XMPP4R •gem install ln-xmpp4r • very full-featured • threaded, event-based • BAD: a lack of documentation, steep learning curve • Interfacing with Rails app requires an external daemon
- 14. strophe-ruby • gem install yong-stropheruby • based off libstrophe, a C library • event-based • can be run within a Rails app with proper timeouts and exception handling • new release soon • LOOKING FOR CONTRIBUTORS!
- 15. The Front-End
- 16. BOSH • Bi-directional streams Over Synchronous HTTP • This is not COMET, which requires a single persistent connection • Session persists over multiple connections • Full-formed HTTP requests, so works with most proxies
- 17. BOSH client <body/>, session BOSH connection no <body/> manager XMPP server
- 18. Strophe • Excellent Javascript BOSH client • written by Jack Moffit (metajack.im) • written for Chesspark • used in production at Present.ly • very, very awesome.
- 19. Strophe connection = new Strophe.Connection(“/http-bind”); connection.connect(“pradeep@xmpp.org”, “password”, onConnect); // this calls onMessage for each <message/> stanza connection.addHandler(onMessage, null, ‘message’, null, null, null); // this calls onPubsubEvent every time there’s a message // from a PubSub node connection.addHandler(onPubsubEvent, 'http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event', 'message', null, null, null);
- 20. An Example
- 21. Present.ly (before) Client jQuery, polling Rails Custom Index DB Supporting Daemons
- 23. Present.ly (now) BOS H, st Client rophe- js BOSH connection manager Rails str op he -ru by eJabberd DB Supporting Daemons
- 25. demo time
- 26. XMPP Servers • eJabberd • written in Erlang, highly scalable, actively maintained • runs in production on Present.ly, Chesspark • Jabberd2 • written in C, actively maintained • Tigase • written in Java, actively maintained • runs in production on Seesmic • Openfire • written in Java, actively maintained • large community, lots of plugins. good for basic XMPP apps • Prosody • written in Lua, very new, claims to be lightweight
- 27. Questions? pradeep@intridea.com twitter: @pradeep24 http://www.skyfallsin.com