Case Studies and Use Cases

From building a chat room to expose a fully-featured event store, Mercure covers a broad spectrum of use cases related to realtime and async APIs.

Case Studies

• How Raven Controls is using Mercury to power major events such as Cop 21 and Euro 2020

• Pushing 8 million of Mercure notifications per day to run mail.tm

• 100,000 simultaneous Mercure users to power iGraal

Example of usage: the Mercure integration in API Platform:

Use Cases

Here are some popular use cases:

Live Availability

• a webapp retrieves the availability status of a product from a REST API and displays it: only one is still available

• 3 minutes later, the last product is bought by another customer

• the webapp's view instantly shows that this product isn't available anymore

Asynchronous Jobs

• a webapp tells the server to compute a report, this task is costly and will take some time to complete

• the server delegates the computation of the report to an asynchronous worker (using message queue), and closes the connection with the webapp

• the worker sends the report to the webapp when it is computed

Collaborative Editing

• a webapp allows several users to edit the same document concurrently

• changes made are immediately broadcasted to all connected users

Mercure gets you covered!

See also, the examples.