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Real-time & Messagingby SoftwareCrafting

Event-driven architectures, message queues, and live data pipelines for responsive applications by SoftwareCrafting.

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48hr Kick-off
7 Engineers
Founder-led Delivery
Real-time & Messaging Services

Delivery Time

2-5 weeks

Senior deliveryFounder-involved build team
From₹20,000

Service Overview

SoftwareCrafting builds real-time and messaging systems for products where users need instant state changes, live dashboards, chat, tracking, notifications, or background processing. We design Socket.io, WebSockets, server-sent events, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ, Firebase, Pusher, Redis streams, retry policies, dead-letter queues, presence, fan-out, and consumer scaling. We keep the architecture practical so your product gets low-latency updates without fragile connections or lost events.

Technologies we use

KafkaRabbitMQBullMQFirebasePusherSSESocket.io

Key Features

  • Kafka event streaming pipelines
  • RabbitMQ message queue setup
  • BullMQ background job processing
  • WebSocket real-time push with Socket.io
  • Server-Sent Events (SSE) for live feeds
  • Firebase Realtime Database / Firestore sync
  • Dead-letter queue & retry strategies
  • Horizontal scaling of consumers

Pricing Snapshot

₹20,000

Starting from ₹20,000 for real-time system design and integration

  • Model: project
  • Timeline: 2-5 weeks
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Step-by-step

Our Delivery Process

We use an agile, transparent process to ensure your project is completed on time and meets exactly your needs.

01

Event and latency mapping

We identify which product events must be instant, which can be queued, expected traffic patterns, ordering needs, fan-out, and delivery guarantees.

2-4 days
02

Messaging architecture

We choose WebSockets, SSE, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ, Firebase, or Pusher, then design topics, queues, retries, scaling, and observability.

3-5 days
03

Implementation and integration

We implement live APIs, background workers, event persistence, reconnection states, dead-letter queues, and user-facing real-time UI.

1-3 weeks
04

Load testing and monitoring

We validate throughput, reconnection behavior, message loss, queue depth, worker scaling, and alerting before launch.

2-5 days
Why Us

Why Choose SoftwareCrafting?

  • Live user experiences without constant polling
  • Reliable event delivery for queues, notifications, and workflows
  • Systems that handle traffic spikes without dropping messages
  • Better separation between product services through events
  • Clear monitoring for queue depth, failures, retries, and latency
  • Room to scale from simple WebSockets to event streaming when needed
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Should we use WebSockets or server-sent events?
Use WebSockets when the client and server both need to send frequent messages, such as chat or collaboration. SSE is simpler for one-way live updates like dashboards, status feeds, and notifications.
Should I use Kafka or RabbitMQ?
Kafka is strong for high-throughput event streams, replay, audit logs, and analytics. RabbitMQ is usually better for task queues, routing, and work that needs explicit acknowledgement.
Can you add real-time features to an existing app?
Yes. We can introduce Socket.io, SSE, Firebase, Pusher, or a queue-based worker layer without rewriting your whole backend.
How do you prevent lost messages?
We use acknowledgements, durable queues, event logs, retries, idempotent consumers, dead-letter queues, and monitoring so failures are visible and recoverable.
Testimonials

Client Success & Reviews

See what our clients say about our Enterprise Web App Development and Staff Augmentation Services.

"We came to SoftwareCrafting after two agencies missed deadlines. They scoped our backend in a week, shipped in eight, and the code was clean enough to onboard a new engineer in two days."

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Michael Chen

CTO, TechFlow

"Their senior engineers plugged straight into our Slack and stand-ups. No "PM forwarding messages" theatre. Three pull requests on day one."

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Sarah Jenkins

VP of Product, InnovateInc

"They moved our legacy app to AWS without a single hour of downtime. Bill dropped 38%. I'll use SoftwareCrafting for anything we build next."

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David Mueller

Founder, CloudScale

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