FastPubSub

Real-time messaging over measured low-latency paths

Low-latency fan-out for live updates

Deliver live events to many listeners without queueing everything through one slow path. FastPubSub fans out near listeners across regions.

FastPubSub runs as a managed global service broker for live fan-out. You can use worldwide delivery across the planet, or run in a single region if that is your target scope.

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What problem this solves

One update to many listeners

Live dashboards and collaboration channels often publish one event to many subscribers at the same time.

Cross-region listeners with path variance

Global audiences see uneven latency when direct paths degrade across ISPs and interconnects.

Central queue bottlenecks

Routing all delivery through a single slow path adds avoidable delay for fast listeners.

How FastPubSub helps

Fan-out near listeners

Messages are replicated close to destination listeners to reduce long central delivery chains.

Measured paths over overlay mesh

Routing adapts when direct Internet paths are slow or unstable.

Independent subscriber flow control

Slow subscribers do not block fast subscribers on the same channel.

Typical message patterns

One-to-many

Live event broadcast for dashboards and feeds.

Many-to-many

Shared channels for collaboration and group state.

Regional fan-out

Cross-region delivery with lower-latency paths.

Why not a queue or a CDN

Why not a queue

This workload is about live distribution speed. It does not require durable replay or queue processing semantics for each event.

FastPubSub is delivered as a service, while Kafka, NATS, and RabbitMQ are software stacks you usually operate or manage yourself.

Why not a CDN

CDNs optimize static objects. FastPubSub targets small live messages and channel fan-out.

See detailed comparison with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ →

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Ship live updates with lower latency

Use measured routing and fan-out near listeners for responsive real-time experiences.