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Better scalability options (replace @colyseus/proxy?)

See original GitHub issue

Issue Description

Currently, we need the @colyseus/proxy in order to scale while keeping the matchmaker aware of all nodes in the “cluster”.

The problems the proxy has are:

Single point of failure (all connections go through the proxy)
If the proxy restarts, all connections are going to be lost and need to be re-established
It seems that "node-http-proxy" has a memory-leak (@colyseus/proxy depends on node-http-proxy)

Ideally, Colyseus should allow better scalability options rather than heavily relying on @colyseus/proxy.

Previous discussion: https://github.com/colyseus/colyseus/issues/179

Issue Analytics

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:19
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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vitalyrotaricommented, Dec 11, 2020

@endel I found interesting project based on C++, is a proxy server, you can take a look https://pushpin.org/. Maybe it can be integrated with Colyseus

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smokeythebanditcommented, Aug 9, 2022

Hey Guys,

I’m currently deploying Colyseus in a Kubernetes cluster, and am running into issues with the proxy while stress testing.

I’d be able to implement the proxy in C++. To replicate the current functionality I think I can manage, but with regards to handeling reconnect in case a proxy crashes/connection drops I’m not sure how to deal with it.

Is this something you guys would be interested in?

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