Any Cables Monthly #19
March, 2024: AnyCable v1.5 introduces simplified streams and whispers
Did you miss us? We decided to take a break in February, but this means more cool stuff for this issue. Buckle up!
Highlights
AnyCable v1.5 is out! Grab yours here.
We are glad to announce our new release—AnyCable v1.5, which adds a simplified standalone pub/sub mode: no RPC, Socket.IO style. Other updates include whispering (broadcasts that do not touch backend) which is super useful for typing indicators, cursors and similar features.
Check out the release notes for more information or take a look at a couple of new demos:
Minimal messaging Next.js app demonstrating public streams (Stackblitz)
Using signed streams and whispering for type indicators in our To-do/chat Rails app (GitHub PR)
P.S. We recently announced AnyCable v1.5 at the SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup, check out the video (and don’t miss other talks from the meetup).
P.P.S. AnyCable+ now runs on v1.5, so you can take the new simplified abstractions for a spin with just a few clicks.
News
Laravel got its own official WebSocket server. The benchmarks look pretty cool, but let’s wait while we figure out the AnyCable story for Laravel.
Talks
Seven deadly Rails anti-patterns at SinCityRuby (or, the reason we didn’t publish our previous Monthly).
One of the sins mentioned in the talk is page refreshes (Turbo 8 feature). Wonder how it could be both good and evil? Check out the slide (sorry, no video was recorded).
Releases
Turbo 8 is conquering the Rails world! Morphing, refreshes, view transitions, insta clicks. How do you like it?
Frame of curiosity: AnyCable Broadcasts
No, this is not a new feature announcement 😁 “AnyCable Broadcasts” is the name of our blog on Substack (this one). We decided to go all-in with Substack and use it for articles, case studies, screencasts, short notes, and this newsletter—a shared home for all AnyCable and realtime-related content we produce.
So, expect more emails broadcasts from AnyCable appearing in your inbox soon. Here is a teaser of our first Customer Column post arriving next week:
I have to say, seeing the CPUs on an AWS c6g.2xlarge instance at only 6% utilization for 10K listeners is pretty crazy (in a very positive way)
For now, let us share the Top-5 broadcasts we transmitted over the years and just re-transmitted to Substack:
Please, tell us what you think about our AnyCable Broadcasts idea and what would you like to receive through this channel!
And here’s how to subscribe: