FastPubSub

Ultra-low latency distributed messaging network

This project is currently under development

Better paths than the public Internet — when it matters

FastPubSub delivers up to 64KB messages from Writers to many Listeners via a global relay fabric. We probe paths in real time and route around overloaded interconnects and BGP detours to reduce latency spikes and keep delivery consistent — especially for real users behind ISPs, mobile networks, and firewalls.

Engineer note: WebSocket edge (QUIC planned) · QUIC relay backbone · Online-only fanout (no persistence)

Key Features

Rust Powered

Built entirely in Rust for maximum performance, memory safety, and minimal overhead.

Latency Routing

Our relays dynamically route packets based on real-time latency measurements (RTT), not hop count.

Overlay Network

Uses QUIC over UDP between relays to form an overlay mesh that can route around BGP detours and congested interconnects.

WebSocket API

Easy integration for clients via standard WebSockets. Logical channels instead of raw TCP streams.

Easy Integration

Start coding in minutes with our lightweight SDKs for major languages. No complex configuration required.

Standard Protocols

Built on open standards: WebSocket for edge connectivity (QUIC planned for clients) and QUIC for the relay backbone.

Built for Business Critical Speed

Gain a Competitive Edge

In latency-sensitive systems—trading signals, multiplayer state, live bidding—milliseconds matter, but latency spikes matter even more. FastPubSub continuously probes network paths and routes around congested interconnects and BGP detours to keep delivery fast and consistent, especially across regions and real-world ISPs.

Cost Efficiency

Stop overpaying for idle infrastructure. Our global mesh network allows you to scale instantly without the capital expenditure of building and operating your own Points of Presence (PoPs).

Unmatched Reliability

The public Internet changes minute to minute. FastPubSub runs on a distributed relay fabric that detects route degradation and shifts traffic to better paths within seconds, maintaining stable delivery even when links congest, peers flap, or parts of the network fail.

Engineered for Performance

Smart Overlay vs BGP

BGP is built for reachability, not speed. It can pick longer or congested routes. Our relays continuously measure RTT, jitter, and loss. If a path degrades, we recompute routes in seconds and steer traffic to a better hop.

No Storage = Speed

Pure fire-and-forget delivery. No disk persistence means fewer moving parts and no storage bottlenecks—messages flow from Writer to Listener without hitting a database.

No Blocking Queues

FastPubSub is message-oriented, not stream-oriented. We don't enforce global ordering across a channel, so there is no single serialized queue that every message must wait behind. Each subscriber has independent flow control—slow listeners won't stall fast ones.

Distributed Routing

No central broker bottleneck. Writers publish to the nearest relay, the relay mesh forwards the message along the best measured path, and the destination relay fans out to subscribed listeners. Routing stays distributed and scalable as channels and audiences grow.

Developer Friendly

Drop-in SDKs. WebSocket today, QUIC for clients planned. QUIC relay backbone. Simple Pub/Sub API. Focus on your app logic, not networking code.

Massive Scalability

Designed for Many-to-Many communication. Support thousands of concurrent Writers and thousands of Listeners per channel with minimal latency penalty.

What It Is — and What It Isn't

What FastPubSub is

  • Real-time relay fabric for low-latency fanout across regions
  • Message-oriented: fire-and-forget delivery up to 64 KB
  • Overlay mesh that probes paths and routes around congestion
  • Designed for live signals, cross-region reachability, and large audiences

What FastPubSub is not

  • Not a message queue (no persistence, no replay, no ordering guarantees)
  • Not Kafka, not RabbitMQ — no durable log, no consumer groups
  • Not a CDN — we move small messages, not large objects
  • Not a VPN — we route application-level messages, not raw IP packets

MVP Status: Working End-to-End

The core is operational: QUIC overlay mesh, latency-based Distance Vector routing, and access ticket authentication are all working. We are hardening these components and preparing for the first external testers.

New: dashboard.fastpubsub.com is live — a real-time monitoring dashboard showing our overlay network, latency savings, and network anomalies on a world map. We are also preparing the first SDKs for easy integration.

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How It Works

1. Connect

Clients (Writers/Listeners) connect to our relays via WebSocket. Authentication and channel logic happen here.

2. Smart Routing

The message enters the network. Our relays use Distance Vector routing with latency metrics to forward data through the best measured path.

3. Delivery

Data reaches the destination relay and is pushed to subscribed Listeners immediately.