🌟 Will we see a new messaging era? Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has taken a significant step in the field of online communication with the acquisition of Beeper. This strengthens their messaging position after the acquisition of Texts.com with a similar focus on interop in December 2023. This move could represent a significant opportunity… Continue reading After Texts.com, Automattic acquires Beeper
Author: Mickaël Rémond
Owner, Founder, CEO
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… Continue reading Happy New Year: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with ejabberd
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,… Continue reading Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
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… Continue reading Federate the world — Best wishes from ProcessOne
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… Continue reading Hello Fediverse !
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… Continue reading ejabberd turns 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.
Install ejabberd on macOS using Homebrew package manager
Homebrew is now the de facto package manager for open source software on macOS. Thus, we have discontinued our macOS binary installer to focus on improving further ejabberd experience on macOS by polishing Homebrew ejabberd package.
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.
Towards Lean Computing: Integrating Energy Consumption in Application Design
In the quest for better energy efficiency, the applications themselves are often overlooked. Our industry likes to pretend that all technologies are equivalent and has forgotten that the choice of programming languages, frameworks and architecture have a major impact on energy consumption.
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,… Continue reading ProcessOne: What to expect in 2020?
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… Continue reading SwiftNIO Workshop in Paris at dotSwift Conference
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… Continue reading Building Realtime Streaming Architectures