Adopters

This page lists the organizations who adopted Netty in their projects or products. Make sure to sort the list alphabetically and keep the list up-to-date.

• 1&1
• Airbnb
  • Plog - Fire-and-forget UDP logging service with custom Netty pipelines & extensive monitoring
• Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
  • An asynchronous messaging system, an example of Message Oriented Middleware.
• Apache Spark
  • General purpose cluster compute framework - using Netty for RPC and shuffle data communication
• Apple
  • Using Netty for various services.
  • Netty @ Apple: Large Scale Deployment / Connectivity
• ArkaSoft
  • Freddo/DTalk
  • Freddo Telephony
• Avast Software
  • Distributes their anti-virus updates to more than 100M users using Netty.
  • Optimizing your cloud for millions of connections (slides)
  • Streaming updates - real time system for distributing updates to millions of users
• Basho
  • Riak Java client
• Between
  • A private mobile app for couples with over 5 million users to store and share their memories, providing an exclusive communication channel just between the two
  • Between system architecture (Korean; they built their API and messaging server with Netty.)
• Blynk
  • Open Source IoT Platform with mobile applications. Blynk Server supports HTTP/S API, WebSockets, own binary protocol.
• Boundary
  • Monitors the continuously changing environment of distributed applications in real-time.
  • Know a delay: Nagle's algorithm and you
• Buoyant
  • linkerd -- an open source RPC proxy
  • Beyond Round Robin: Load Balancing for Latency
• Cisco
• Couchbase
  • Couchbase Java SDK Internals
• Databricks
  • Use Netty for RPC layer
• DataStax
  • A commercial Cassandra vendor
  • Robust and scalable distributed queries with DSE Search 4.0
• Datawire
  • Quark - A specialized language for defining and implementing communication protocols and microservices in multiple languages
• Droplr
  • Using Netty for their HTTP API.
  • See case studies chapter of Netty in Action
• Elasticsearch
  • Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
• Epeizhen
  • Using Netty for backbone message exchange services and proxies.
• ESN Planet
  • A feature-rich social real-time web platform which scales horizontally and vertically
  • Useful tools for Netty
• Exzeo
  • Uses for its high performance, http based, dynamic search system
• F5
  • Signaling Delivery Controler
• Facebook
  • Nifty - Netty-based Thrift transport implementation
  • See case studies chapter of Netty in Action
  • Presto - Distributed SQL query engine for big data
• Firebase
  • Using Netty for the core services
  • See case studies chapter of Netty in Action
• Fitbit
  • Uses Netty for to handle all incoming API traffic.
• Google
  • gRPC - An HTTP/2-based remote procedure call (RPC) system.
  • OpenBidder - an open source real-time bidding (RTB) framework enabling you to bid ads at real time.
• GLU Mobile
• Jooby
  • Scalable, fast and modular micro web server.
  • Uses Netty as HTTP NIO server.
• Hazelcast
  • Used for the internal communication in Hazelcast Simulator, a stresstest and production simulation tool for Hazelcast.
• IBM
• Infinote
  • Brings the power of big data text analytics into Microsoft Word.
  • A tweet by @adisesha
• Instagram
  • Used for IG Direct
  • A tweet by @rbanson
• Instana
  • Agent connectivity
• K3P0
  • A network protocol testing toolkit used to certify compliance and functionality
• Kaazing
• Kakao Talk
  • A mobile messenger over 100 million people use. They built their Android push server with Netty.
• Layer
  • Uses Netty as the communication layer for client API (a REST and WebSocket API) for messaging platform
• LeanCloud
  • Netty is used as the foundation of push and instant messaging services of LeanMessage, serving WebSockets and other protocols for clients from various platform
• LiquidLabs LogScape
  • A high performance log visualization tool that scales to thousands of machines; suitable for grid, cloud or SOA applications
• Livefyre
  • Uses Netty in various microservices, most importantly for real-time streaming of social media and user generated content to over a million of concurrent users for customers such as CNN, Fox News, Coca Cola, ...
• Maginatics
  • Delivers software-only storage platform natively designed for software-defined data centers and my cloud providers.
  • A tweet by @diwakergupta
• Minecraft
• Netflix
  • NetflixOSS Meetup (video)
  • Ribbon - an inter-process communication (remote procedure calls) library with built-in software load balancers
  • RxNetty - the Reactive extension (Rx) adaptor for Netty
• Neo4j
  • Neo4j - Graph database
• Nous
  • Spark Profit - a free trading simulator that measures your predictive skill
  • A tweet by @justinshort
• Outbrain
  • OB1K
• Playtech
  • uses netty as the communication layer as part of an API-Gateway for all gaming clients and specifically Socket.io for HTML5/mobile clients.
  • uses netty for micro-services provisioning, communication and cluster management.
• Pivotal
  • Project Reactor - a foundation for reactive fastdata applications on the JVM
• Red Hat
  • Uses Netty in their commercial products based on their open source projects.
  • Infinispan - a distributed in-memory key/value data grid and cache
  • HornetQ - a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system
  • AeroGear Push - support for different push notification technologies like Google Cloud Messaging, Apple's APNs or Mozilla's SimplePush
  • Vert.x - Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance application platform for the JVM that's designed for modern mobile, web, and enterprise applications.
  • RHQ - RHQ is an enterprise management solution for JBoss middleware projects, Tomcat, Apache Web Server, and numerous other server-side applications.
• Remember The Milk
  • An on-line task management service
  • Real time updating comes to the Remember The Milk web app
• SAPO
  • A Portuguese internet service provider and web portal
  • A tweet by @lneves
• Sears Holdings Corporation
  • An integrated retailer focused on seamlessly connecting the digital and physical shopping experiences
  • A tweet by @adyrcz
• Spotify
  • netty-zmtp - A collection of Netty channel handlers that aims to implement ZMTP, the ZeroMQ Message Transport Protocol.
• Sprint
  • Using Netty to collect huge volume of remote internal application logs.
• Square
• Squarespace
  • Using Netty to make a better Web
• Shaka Technologies
  • Tweet by @ShakaTechs
• StumbleUpon
  • OpenTSDB
• Sulake
• Tachobyte - using Netty for pipeline between digital tachographs.
• TinkerPop
  • TinkerPop3 Graph Computing Framework uses Netty for Gremlin Server
• TripleLift
• Tuplejump
  • Tweet by @satyaprakash007
• Twitter
  • Finagle and Cloudhopper
  • Netty at Twitter with Finagle
  • Netty 4 at Twitter reduced GC overhead
  • Twitter Search is now 3x faster.
• Typesafe
  • Play Framework - The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala
• Uber
  • tchannel-java - A Java implementation of the TChannel protocol
• Unbounce
  • Tweet by @ddossot
• Unify
  • Circuit - An enterprise WebRTC based team communication and collaboration cloud service
• Urban Airship
  • See case studies chapter of Netty in Action
• VMware
  • Xenon
• Wasted IO
  • Netflow
• Yahoo
  • Making Storm fly with Netty
• Zynga