When using ejabberd in a company for multi-user chat (see my earlier blog post) people will quickly start complaining that they missed discussions because they had been offline. Ejabberd does play back last 20 messages when user joins a room, but that is too little for an active chatroom. The simplistic approach is to set […]
Ejabberd is a very flexible and scalable XMPP server. We use it because it can be configured using a simple yaml configuration file and managed via ejabberdctl commands. This makes it a good fit for our infrastructure as code approach. That said, ejabberd does require one to understand the XMPP protocol/jargon as it does not […]
