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Websocket Hub Patterns

Horizontally-scalable WebSocket hub pattern with lazy Redis subscriptions, connection registry, and graceful shutdown. Use when building real-time WebSocket servers that scale across multiple instances. Triggers on WebSocket hub, WebSocket scaling, connection registry, Redis WebSocket, real-time gateway, horizontal scaling.

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Horizontally-scalable WebSocket hub pattern with lazy Redis subscriptions, connection registry, and graceful shutdown. Use when building real-time WebSocket servers that scale across multiple instances. Triggers on WebSocket hub, WebSocket scaling, connection registry, Redis WebSocket, real-time gateway, horizontal scaling.

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Version
1.0.0

Documentation

ClawHub primary doc Primary doc: SKILL.md 13 sections Open source page

WebSocket Hub Patterns

Production patterns for horizontally-scalable WebSocket connections with Redis-backed coordination.

OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawbot

npx clawhub@latest install websocket-hub-patterns

When to Use

Real-time bidirectional communication Chat applications, collaborative editing Live dashboards with client interactions Need horizontal scaling across multiple gateway instances

Hub Structure

type Hub struct { // Local state connections map[*Connection]bool subscriptions map[string]map[*Connection]bool // channel -> connections // Channels register chan *Connection unregister chan *Connection broadcast chan *Event // Redis for scaling redisClient *redis.Client redisSubs map[string]*goredis.PubSub redisSubLock sync.Mutex // Optional: Distributed registry connRegistry *ConnectionRegistry instanceID string // Shutdown done chan struct{} wg sync.WaitGroup }

Hub Main Loop

func (h *Hub) Run() { for { select { case <-h.done: return case conn := <-h.register: h.connections[conn] = true if h.connRegistry != nil { h.connRegistry.RegisterConnection(ctx, conn.ID(), info) } case conn := <-h.unregister: if _, ok := h.connections[conn]; ok { if h.connRegistry != nil { h.connRegistry.UnregisterConnection(ctx, conn.ID()) } h.removeConnection(conn) } case event := <-h.broadcast: h.broadcastToChannel(event) } } }

Lazy Redis Subscriptions

Subscribe to Redis only when first local subscriber joins: func (h *Hub) subscribeToChannel(conn *Connection, channel string) error { // Add to local subscriptions if h.subscriptions[channel] == nil { h.subscriptions[channel] = make(map[*Connection]bool) } h.subscriptions[channel][conn] = true // Lazy: Only subscribe to Redis on first subscriber h.redisSubLock.Lock() defer h.redisSubLock.Unlock() if _, exists := h.redisSubs[channel]; !exists { pubsub := h.redisClient.Subscribe(context.Background(), channel) h.redisSubs[channel] = pubsub go h.forwardRedisMessages(channel, pubsub) } return nil } func (h *Hub) unsubscribeFromChannel(conn *Connection, channel string) { if subs, ok := h.subscriptions[channel]; ok { delete(subs, conn) // Cleanup when no local subscribers if len(subs) == 0 { delete(h.subscriptions, channel) h.closeRedisSubscription(channel) } } }

Redis Message Forwarding

func (h *Hub) forwardRedisMessages(channel string, pubsub *goredis.PubSub) { ch := pubsub.Channel() for { select { case <-h.done: return case msg, ok := <-ch: if !ok { return } h.broadcast <- &Event{ Channel: channel, Data: []byte(msg.Payload), } } } } func (h *Hub) broadcastToChannel(event *Event) { subs := h.subscriptions[event.Channel] for conn := range subs { select { case conn.send <- event.Data: // Sent default: // Buffer full - close slow client h.removeConnection(conn) } } }

Connection Write Pump

func (c *Connection) writePump() { ticker := time.NewTicker(54 * time.Second) // Ping interval defer func() { ticker.Stop() c.conn.Close() }() for { select { case message, ok := <-c.send: c.conn.SetWriteDeadline(time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)) if !ok { c.conn.WriteMessage(websocket.CloseMessage, []byte{}) return } c.conn.WriteMessage(websocket.TextMessage, message) // Batch drain queue for i := 0; i < len(c.send); i++ { c.conn.WriteMessage(websocket.TextMessage, <-c.send) } case <-ticker.C: if err := c.conn.WriteMessage(websocket.PingMessage, nil); err != nil { return } } } }

Connection Registry for Horizontal Scaling

type ConnectionRegistry struct { client *redis.Client instanceID string } func (r *ConnectionRegistry) RegisterConnection(ctx context.Context, connID string, info ConnectionInfo) error { info.InstanceID = r.instanceID data, _ := json.Marshal(info) return r.client.Set(ctx, "ws:conn:"+connID, data, 2*time.Minute).Err() } func (r *ConnectionRegistry) HeartbeatInstance(ctx context.Context, connectionCount int) error { info := InstanceInfo{ InstanceID: r.instanceID, Connections: connectionCount, } data, _ := json.Marshal(info) return r.client.Set(ctx, "ws:instance:"+r.instanceID, data, 30*time.Second).Err() }

Graceful Shutdown

func (h *Hub) Shutdown() { close(h.done) // Close all Redis subscriptions h.redisSubLock.Lock() for channel, pubsub := range h.redisSubs { pubsub.Close() delete(h.redisSubs, channel) } h.redisSubLock.Unlock() // Close all connections for conn := range h.connections { conn.Close() } h.wg.Wait() }

Decision Tree

SituationApproachSingle instanceSkip ConnectionRegistryMulti-instanceEnable ConnectionRegistryNo subscribers to channelLazy unsubscribe from RedisSlow clientClose on buffer overflowNeed message historyUse Redis Streams + Pub/Sub

Related Skills

Meta-skill: ai/skills/meta/realtime-dashboard/ โ€” Complete realtime dashboard guide dual-stream-architecture โ€” Event publishing resilient-connections โ€” Connection resilience

NEVER Do

NEVER block on conn.send โ€” Use select with default to detect overflow NEVER skip graceful shutdown โ€” Clients need close frames NEVER share pubsub across channels โ€” Each channel needs own subscription NEVER forget instance heartbeat โ€” Dead instances leave orphaned connections NEVER send without ping/pong โ€” Load balancers close "idle" connections

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Package contents

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  • SKILL.md Primary doc
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