Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Sockudo

High-performance Pusher alternative in Rust

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services▲114
Reverse proxy for realtime APIs.
2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →
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Second State VM▲78
High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js
2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →
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DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps▲367
Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →
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SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub▲217
Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await
2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →
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Socketo▲2
Pusher-compatible, serverless WebSockets for developers.
May 2026 · socketo.dev · its alternatives →
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SocketCluster▲93
A scalable realtime engine for Node.js
2015 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →
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Zaplib – Speed up your webapp with Rust+Wasm▲175
2022 · zaplib.com · its alternatives →
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Pushpin, a reverse proxy for real-time web services▲49
A proxy server for adding push to your API, used at the core of Fastly's Fanout service - fastly/pushpin
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications▲71
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run your own Push/Pull service for free using node.js + socket.io▲37
301 Moved to http://github.com/daraosn/mustekala. Contribute to daraosn/node-puller development by creating an account on GitHub.
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler▲141
Hi HN, I’ve wanted a simple solution to handle Wake-on-LAN sequences for my home and work labs to boot up servers in the right order. I was already dabbling in Rust and thought this would be an interesting project to dive deeper and see if it could work well for this kind of network tool. The result is rallyup. rallyup lets you set up server dependencies in a YAML file, so each service (e.g., firewalls, storage, VM hosts) comes online in the right order. It verifies each server’s status before moving to the next. Features: - Dependency-based WOL with VLAN support - Built-in health checks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stackhero for Redis▲75
Redis on Heroku, performant with attractive prices
2021 · elements.heroku.com · its alternatives →
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Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust▲85
A CLI development tool for WebSocket APIs. Contribute to eliihen/wsta development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL▲123
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shadowsocks-rust – A fast SOCKSv5 proxy in Rust▲68
Oh my implementation of Shadowsocks in Rust. Contribute to loggerhead/shadowsocks-rust development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rusteerio by Context.dev▲71
Keep your Cheerio code. Make it faster.
9d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Second State Serverless FaaS▲92
High-performance serverless functions for Rust & WebAssembly
2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →
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Pulse▲90
Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted
Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →
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I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use▲68
Hello! I got quite some feedback on a web server I'm building, so I'm rewriting the server to be faster and easier to use. I (and maybe some other contributors?) have optimized the web server performance, especially for static file serving and reverse proxying (the last use case I optimized for very recently). I also picked a different configuration format and specification, what I believe is easier to write. Automatic TLS is also enabled by default out of the box, you don't need to even enable it manually, like it was in the original server I was building. Yesterday, I released the first…
2025 · ferron.sh · its alternatives →
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WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary▲32
WolfStack folds Portainer, Uptime Kuma, Ansible, and Cockpit into a single Rust binary, and integrates with Proxmox and Tailscale. Manage Docker, LXC, VMs, networking, storage, backups, and status pages from one dashboard.
Mar 2026 · wolfscale.org · its alternatives →
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Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image▲59
A Redis-compatable key-value store. Up to 10x faster. Native vector support. - lux-db/lux
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stampede.io – Hybrid IaaS/Docker Orchestation Running on CoreOS▲40
2014 · ibuildthecloud.com · its alternatives →
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We are three devs from Kenya and built a Docker alternative in Rust▲12
Introducing Sphere - A lightweight, sandboxed compute runtime written in Rust. - introducing-sphere.md
2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Actix web 0.4 – simple and extremely fast web framework for Rust▲35
Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust. - actix/actix-web
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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