Hey! We’re going to have a lot of iot devices that...
# ktora
acoconut
10/25/2021, 3:14 PMHey! We’re going to have a lot of iot devices that need to connect to a server on our backend and we’re considering building our server with ktor, any thoughts on this? Is ktor a good idea to handle a lot of connections with small payloads?
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Tobias Marschall
10/26/2021, 4:26 AMDon’t have anything to say agains this.
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acoconut
10/26/2021, 7:29 AMThanks! That helps 🙂
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Joris PZ
10/27/2021, 11:59 AMWe're using Ktor with websockets for exactly this purpose/reason, maintaining always-on websocket connections to devices running in the field (public transport terminals in our case)
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acoconut
10/27/2021, 4:35 PMThat’s great to hear Joris! 😄 I think we’ll go with Ktor. Our other candidate is vert.x but from what I’m reading ktor sounds like a great option
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Joris PZ
10/28/2021, 6:00 PMBoth are great, we've been using Vert.X with great success as well for IoT inside of moving vehicles, but that was before coroutines were available. If I were to build that software today I'd probably choose Ktor there as well!
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acoconut
10/29/2021, 10:33 AMThanks!
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