broadcreek

Like deepstream in that it provides:

• realtime db with record subscriptions
• provide and call RPCs
• uws interface
• shitty documentation (for now)

Unlike deepstream in that it:

• logs what the fuck it's doing
• has proper security
• is designed for event sourcing
• uses blockchain technology (ooooh, fancypants -- it's just chained hashes and payload signatures)
• you can query shit

Still lots to do here... i.e.,

• multiple providers of RPC calls accepted, but all calls will currently be routed to the eldest active provider
• no analog of a list-type record
• query support limited to record parameter matching
• message validation could be more performant by caching certificate trust for the session
• websocket already using C-bindings for performance, tests indicate 10-12x further performance improvement if message integrity and authentication checks were also done with native methods
• subscribe to a query

Getting Started

Pre-requisites

• Setup a local CA
• Export CA cert in DER format, e.g., openssl x509 -inform PEM -outform DER -in ca.cert.pem -out ca.cer (it expects to find it in $CA/certs/ca.cer, see env var below)

git clone ssh://[email protected]:7999/tools/broadcreek.git
cd broadcreek
npm i
CA=/path/to/ca LOG=trace npm run dev