Ask HN: Who's using XMPP?

12 points·SamWhited··7 comments

What companies are using XMPP as a message bus, for instant messaging, push notifications, microservices, IoT, etc. and what does the rest of their messaging stack look like?

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OpenContrail uses XMPP for communicating between the control plane and vRouters. It has a modest userbase in the SDN/NFV areas.

Oh nifty, that's a good one; I haven't heard of this before, thanks!

Facebook.com, talk.google.com. A well engineered messaging protocol. I also believe it's used by automatic toll collection machines.

There was a lot of publicity a while back about Facebook and Google shutting down their XMPP endpoints. I'm reasonably sure Facebook is MQTT internally and just used XMPP as the public interface, but I don't know about Google Talk (or Hangouts, or whatever the new thing is called): Are they still using XMPP internally? Also I'd love to know about the toll machines if you have a reference!

Google is still using XMPP, but not officially for IM.

Goodle Cloud Messaging (GCM)[0] comes to my mind, where you use XMPP to send notifications to your Android/ChromeOS/... clients.

There is also Google Cloud Print [1], where XMPP is used internally by printers (my HP MFP M277dw supports it) to receive print jobs.

[0] https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/server#impl...

[1] https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/

Companies I know about off the top of my head who participate in the standards process somewhat: Isode (M-Link/C++), Surevine (Openfire/Java), Tigase (Tigase Server/Java), ProcessOne (Ejabberd/Erlang), ChatID (Prosody/Lua), Cisco (Cisco Jabber). Looking forward to hearing about others though.

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