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Scaledrone

Realtime messaging service and platform for adding live features to apps.

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Scaledrone is a hosted realtime messaging service that provides WebSockets-based pub/sub messaging, message history, presence, and access control for building chat, collaboration, and live-update features. It uses WebSockets with fallback to other transport technologies.

Features include pub/sub messaging (server-to-user, user-to-user, user-to-server), presence indicators, message history, access control rules that integrate with existing authentication services, and debug tools for viewing users and rooms. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Swift, Java, Node.js, Go, Ruby, Python, and PHP, along with a REST API and curl access.

Scaledrone is aimed at developers building chat, collaboration, live updates, and similar realtime features. It is packaged with a free plan (up to 20 concurrent connections and 100,000 daily events) and paid tiers that scale concurrent connections and daily events, with priority support and personal onboarding on higher tiers. All features are available on all plans, including the free plan.

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