[Xeoncross]

Socket.io also proxies websocket events as HTTP if needed.

So is this is basically socket.io as a service?

[jkarneges]

Interesting! Do you have a link to any info about this?

Edit: or, are you talking about HTTP fallback on the client side, when WebSockets aren't available? Fanout can do that too, but what I was talking about earlier was how Fanout can speak WebSockets to the client and HTTP to the server (like an inverted sockjs/engine.io).

[kondro]

No, the bit that is different about Fanout is that the HTTP servers don’t need to necessarily know about the fact they’re coming from a persistent connection. The backend servers remain as stateless HTTP servers.