Fanout

What it does

Fanout makes it easy to build realtime APIs and apps. The product is a cross between a reverse proxy and a message broker. Receivers subscribe to channels, and published data is delivered in realtime. The magic is in Fanout’s proxy-based design, which makes it possible to build secure and reliable realtime APIs that leverage your API stack.

Deliver real-time data and low-latency WebSockets & pub/sub at the edge with Fastly. Scale chat, IoT, live apps and messaging with a self-managed infrastructure.

Scale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform. Deliver sub-second real-time experiences for chat, live auctions, IoT, and more. Fastly Fanout manages WebSockets, HTTP, and TLS connections, bringing real-time communications and pub/sub patterns to the edge. Connect to any client from one backend, build MQTT applications, offload WebSockets, or even orchestrate events across the web - all at Fastly scale. Fanout can manage millions of concurrent, stateful WebSocket or HTTP streaming connections at the edge, letting you relay simple HTTP requests to your origin. This can significantly offload server demand, drive…from fastly.com

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  Fanout2015 · fastly.com · ▲98

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