Happy New Year: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with ejabberd

Time flies, and it’s hard to believe that ejabberd, our beloved open-source project, celebrated its 21st anniversary last November 16th! It’s a milestone that we’ve proudly highlighted over the years – remember the 4th, 10th, 18th, and 20th anniversaries? Well, 21 is just as significant, marking over two decades of innovation and community effort. In […]

Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously

TLDR; Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, […]

Federate the world — Best wishes from ProcessOne

This is Mickaël Rémond, Founder of ProcessOne, maker of ejabberd. I would like to wish you, customers, users, contributors, a great year 2023, for you and your family. I wish you happiness and success in your projects. I wish you serenity in the turmoil of our connected world. This time of the year is the […]

Hello Fediverse !

Just a quick note to let you know that we have suspended our activity on Twitter. It has been in the past a good place to gather with similarly minded technical people. We feel this is not the case anymore. So, we moved our social network presence in the Fediverse ! You can follow ProcessOne […]

ejabberd turns 20

ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 […]

Matrix protocol added to ejabberd

ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next. ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.

ProcessOne services continue as usual through COVID-19 outbreak

In case you were wondering, all ProcessOne services and operations are continuing as usual throughout COVID-19 outbreak. For more than a decade ProcessOne has been providing realtime messaging & communication services while its team was working 100% remotely, from various global locations. We continue to do so today without interruptions.

Suggestions for assessing our carbon footprint

Every one of our consumer actions has an impact on the environment and contributes to carbon emissions into the atmosphere. We all agree that global warming is not yet under control and that we must act to reduce our own emissions.

Your Development Infrastructure Needs Green & Lean Computing

Software energy consumption is on the rise. The Internet and its online services now account for more than 7% of the planet’s electric consumption. Usage continues to grow extremely rapidly while energy consumption increases almost linearly with usage. It’s time to consider green & lean computing.

ProcessOne: What to expect in 2020?

As this is the end of the year, I’d like to take the opportunity to share with you how ProcessOne has changed over time and how it is approaching the next decade. ProcessOne was created to simplify the implementation of large-scale, real-time messaging services. In 2005, the most advanced tool was clearly Erlang. Since then, […]

SwiftNIO Workshop in Paris at dotSwift Conference

I have partnered with the good folks at dotConferences to put together some contents for a SwiftNIO workshop. The workshop will take place in Paris on February the 4th, the day after the dotSwift conference. If you are coming to Paris for the dotSwift conference, you can make the best of your trip by also […]

Building Realtime Streaming Architectures

Real time is not only about client interactions. We have been using XMPP & MQTT since a long time to connect people and things together. However, there is another use case for real time that is a little less known: real time streaming architectures. This is a design pattern that you can use to make […]

Swift Server-Side Conference 2019 Highlights: Day 2

The second day of the Swift Server-Side conference was as packed with great talk as the first day. You can read my previous post on workshop and day 1. Building the next version of the Smoke Framework (Simon Pilkington) Simon Pilkinson introduced his rework on the Smoke framework, developed as a video ingestion platform for […]