Is Uniqush still 'supported' and viable?

[Rob Willett]

Hi,

We were looking for a Push server provider, most of the commercial ones have some issues with them, some of which are money but some are technical, they don't quite do what we want them to.

We were a little surprised to find so few APNS and GCM packages that allow users to roll their own push servers. There#s lots of toy ones out there but nobody, Uniqush possibly, excepted, seems to sell or provide a decent one for businesses to run themselves. 

So we've found Uniqush and can see at a high level how it works, we don't want all the bells and whistles of A/B marketing, tags etc, we simply want a system to push a lot of messages at GCM or APNS quickly and dynamically. 

e.g. could you put through 3,000 identical messages to one group of users, another2.000 identical messages (but difference to the 1st group) to a different group, 1,000 messages to a third group which is a combination of the first two groups and then five minutes later, completely change the number of users who get a message, the number of messages and the totals. We already segment the messages so we know who should get what, what we want is a reliable method of getting a lot of similar messages out very quickly. We may only send 20-30 different messages out each five minutes but the people they go to is very, very dynamic. Each message may go to between 0 and 5,000 users. 

Our concerns are how stable Uniqush is, is it really viable or is it really abandonware? Normally you can look at the number of issues raised (not a problem) and their fix rate, the activity on the mailing lists to get a feel for the viability and how 'alive' a project is. Uniqush appears to be alive but not so much activity. 

I'd be interested in any views for or against this,

best wishes,

Rob

[Misha Nasledov]

Hi Rob,

uniqush-push is not abandonware. At Tagged / if(we) we use uniqush-push to deliver all our GCM push notifications. We are working on rewriting the APNS portion so there's no memory leaks as well as other improvements to the project. We're handling 250 pushes / second easily right now with it.

As long as you can manage subscriber sets, all of which you've described is possible. You define a subscriber set A with 3000 users, then you define a subscriber set B with 2000 different users, etc. You will have to roll your own logic / code as far as loading these subscribers into uniqush-push.

It is very stable. APNS currently has a memory leak, unfortunately, but we are working to rewrite that portion.

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