Kanalo provides a serverless WebSocket service that enables developers to create real-time applications without managing infrastructure. By facilitating direct socket-to-socket communication and utilizing HTTP for backend interactions, Kanalo enhances scalability and responsiveness, achieving transit times under 20 milliseconds with 99.997% uptime.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Developing real-time applications with WebSockets often requires significant engineering resources to manage and maintain the underlying infrastructure, including servers and connection management. This overhead can divert focus from product development and hinder scalability.
Solution
Kanalo provides a serverless WebSocket service that simplifies the creation of real-time applications by abstracting away infrastructure management. The platform facilitates direct socket-to-socket communication and integrates with backend services via HTTPS, enabling scalable and responsive applications. Kanalo's architecture is designed for low-latency data transfer and high availability, allowing developers to focus on building features rather than managing servers. By leveraging open standards like WebSockets, OAuth, and JWT, Kanalo ensures compatibility with modern web technologies and authentication protocols.
Target Audience
Kanalo's primary customers are developers and engineering teams building real-time applications who want to avoid the complexities of managing WebSocket infrastructure.
Features
- Serverless WebSocket management, eliminating the need for dedicated real-time servers
- Direct socket-to-socket communication and routing via Pipelines and Tags
- Integration with serverless functions and HTTP servers for backend logic execution
- Support for various communication topologies, including fan-out and multicast
- Low-latency data transfer with transit times under 20 milliseconds
- High availability with a 99.997% uptime guarantee
- Compatibility with modern authentication protocols like OAuth and JWT