Server implementation description

Originally Centrifugal organization started from Centrifuge real-time messaging server written in Python. But then the entire Centrifuge codebase was rewritten into Go language. So from this moment when we will talk about server we mean Centrifugo.

The goal of server is to accept client connections from application (web app, mobile app, desktop app). Connections can use pure Websockets protocol or SockJS polyfill library protocol. Centrifugo keeps accepted connections, deliver different messages from clients to server (for example subscription command, presence command etc) and from server to clients (new message in channel, various command responses etc), handle API requests from your web application backend (mostly publish commands to send new message into channel).