Usage estimation of public XMPP servers per domain

Based on data gathered by our IMtrends search engine, here is our very first “market shares” estimation on XMPP servers, for domains known by IMtrends. Please, first note that study relies on a panel of 7292 XMPP domains as discovered by the IMtrends engine. This should be still only a partial analysis of the existing […]

Angie: plugin-based publish and subscribe is a huge leap toward rich presence

The XMPP Standards Foundation has defined a standard protocol to add publish and subscribe mechanisms to XMPP (XEP-0060). It is currently not largely used because of one missing implementation element: it should be implemented as the base of an application server to spread adoption among service developers. The next version of ejabberd will introduce a […]

Angie: Clustered Instant Messaging Services Everywhere

ejabberd 2.0 strongly improves XMPP services clustering. All components included in ejabberd are clustered in this upcoming version, improving scalability and reliability. Moreover, the clustering features are also spreading to external components, thanks to cluster-wide, built-in load-balancing features. In ejabberd 2.0, code-named Angie for ejabberd Next-Generation, clustering is everywhere. Last week we described how our […]