Progress Instant Messaging Service

[Robert_Wilson]

Hi All,

I've started looking at implementing an updated IM chat service in our application and the initial view was to use a node server to push the messages through which seems to be the more popular option industry wide but I've came across Apache Kafka which seems to be a bit more integrated with Progress and being pushed by them.

Just looking to get some suggestions from anyone that has implemented some event driven streaming data service previously and if they have any recommendations or insight on how we should move forward with this?

Thanks,
Robert.

 

[jdpjamesp]

Back in the day we used sockets.
Not sure the implementation of Kafka is what you're after though. As far as I see it the integration is more to do with streaming data changes etc. I've not looked in great detail so I could be wrong.