Any Cables Monthly #30: Kamal, benchmarks, and ⛱️
June, 2025
All the June we’ve been busy with the preparations for the final RailsConf (that starts today; come say “Hi!”), so this issue is a bit short on updates (and frames). We’ve also decided to take some rest and spend the rest of summer newsletter-free 🏖️. See you again this fall!
Highlights
You asked, we listened. Our documentation now includes a detailed guide on deploying AnyCable with Kamal. It covers various possible setups depending on the number of machines and required configuration.
Posts
AnyCable vs. Action Cable: A Benchmark War
Our Rails app’s real-time features were crumbling under 10K users—until we switched WebSocket stacks. Here’s what exploded, what improved, and what caught fire.
The post by Alex Aslam shares a lot of insights and numbers from battle-testing Action Cable vs. AnyCable. I especially like the “Failure Recovery” test—something people rarely pay attention to:
Releases
We’ve updated our benchmarking tool to support Pusher-compatible servers (such as Soketi or Laravel Reverb). Stay tuned for some Laravel AnyCable benchmarks!
Frame of the future: SF Ruby
We run the new San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20, and because—we know!—you are building amazing things, we’d love you to send us a talk proposal, or demo your Ruby startup at the conference. CFP for talks closes this Sunday, July 13, EOD. Join this new and exciting Ruby conference!