Azure Fluid Relay

azureReal-time gatewayazure-fluid-relay

Managed Fluid Framework service that sequences and broadcasts client operations for collaborative editing.

Provider
azure
Category
Edge
Properties · 4 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
ackIntervalSeconds · advancedinteger—no—inherited
autoscalingboolean—nofalseinherited
channelAssignment · advancedenumrandom | hash | stickynorandominherited
customerManagedKeys · component propertyboolean—nofalseinherited
drainOnScaleIn · advancedboolean—nofalseinherited
encryptionAtRest · component propertyboolean—notrueinherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ true
protocolenumwebsocket | sse | long-poll | grpc-stream | udp-multicastnowebsocket▸ websocket
pushFallback · advancedboolean—nofalseinherited
sequenceNumbers · advancedboolean—nofalse▸ true
serverSideCode · component propertyboolean—nofalseinherited
stampedeGuard · advancedboolean—nofalseinherited
statefulboolean—notrue▸ true
subscriptionsPerUser · advancedinteger—no—inherited
Rules that apply · 3

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

reconnect-stampede-without-guard

When a gateway holding millions of sockets restarts, every client reconnects at once and the gateway asks the coordination service about each of them. Without a stampede guard that lookup storm takes the coordination service down too.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node has at least one synchronous outgoing edge to a coordination-service
  • — the node's `stampedeGuard` is false
shared-host-per-channel-without-isolation

With heavy-tail traffic a few channels carry most of the load. Assigning channels at random lands those hot channels on arbitrary hosts, and every tenant sharing a host suffers for it.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `channelAssignment` is "random"
  • — the design requirement `traffic.skew` is "heavy-tail"
stateful-websocket-scale-in-without-drain

Scaling a gateway down kills every live WebSocket on the removed instance at once. Without a drain step those clients all reconnect together.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `autoscaling` is true
  • — the node's `drainOnScaleIn` is false
Use it in a design
nodes:
  - { id: "fluid-relay", component: "azure-fluid-relay" }
Other Real-time gateway products · 19
Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Azure Fluid Relay: managed Fluid Framework service that takes in client data operations, sequences
# them and broadcasts the sequenced operations back, so every client rebuilds the same state.
# Encryption at rest is on by default with Microsoft-managed keys. Facts from "Azure Fluid Relay
# overview" and "Data encryption in Azure Fluid Relay".
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "azure-fluid-relay"
kind: "realtime-gateway"
provider: "azure"
docs: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-fluid-relay/overview/overview"
defaults:
  managed: true
  protocol: "websocket"
  stateful: true
  sequenceNumbers: true
properties:
  encryptionAtRest:
    type: "boolean"
    default: true
  customerManagedKeys:
    type: "boolean"
    default: false
  serverSideCode:
    type: "boolean"
    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/azure-fluid-relay.md