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Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs uWebSockets: What are the differences?
Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data. Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet; uWebSockets: Simple, secure & standards compliant web I/O for the most demanding of applications. It is a simple to use yet thoroughly optimized implementation of HTTP and WebSockets. It comes with built-in pub/sub support, HTTP routing, TLS 1.3, IPv6, permessage-deflate and is battle tested as one of the most popular implementations, reaching many end-users daily.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub and uWebSockets can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
uWebSockets is an open source tool with 10.9K GitHub stars and 1.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to uWebSockets's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Easy to set-up and start with9
- A great choice for microservice architecture2
- Efficient and practical for complex systems2
Pros of uWebSockets
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Cons of Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Need integration with stackdriver for monitoring2