Rivet

What is Rivet?

Rivet is a developer-focused platform designed to simplify the creation and management of real-time, stateful applications such as multiplayer games, collaborative tools, and AI agents. It offers persistent actors that maintain in-memory state with transparent durability, eliminating common backend limitations like function timeouts or reliance on external caches. Rivet runs code close to users at the edge, ensuring low latency and seamless scalability without infrastructure management. Its open-source nature allows full control, self-hosting, and integration with existing tools and workflows.

Key Features

• Stateful Serverless Architecture

  Persistent actors behave like always-on mini-servers that maintain state between requests without the need to manage servers.

• Edge-First Deployment

  Runs backend logic at the network edge by default, delivering ultra-low latency and fast real-time experiences globally.

• Flexible Runtime Options

  Supports Actors for lightweight JavaScript/TypeScript services and Containers for deploying any Dockerized application.

• Built-in Scalability and Reliability

  Automatically scales from a few to millions of users with fault-tolerant data persistence and no external message brokers.

• Comprehensive Cloud Features

  Includes team collaboration with unlimited seats, automatic DDoS protection, SSL/TLS encryption, logging, monitoring, and one-command deploys with rollback.

• Open-Source and Self-Hostable

  Full transparency and freedom to customize or self-host the platform, avoiding vendor lock-in.

Use Cases

• Multiplayer Game Servers : Deploy and manage real-time game servers that maintain player state and scale seamlessly to support concurrent users.
• Collaborative Applications : Build live collaboration tools like text editors or chatrooms with persistent state and instant updates.
• Real-Time APIs and Webhooks : Create serverless functions to handle HTTP requests for APIs, webhooks, authentication, and backend services.
• AI Agent Backends : Host AI agents with persistent memory and stateful logic running close to users for responsive interactions.
• Edge Computing Solutions : Run compute-intensive or latency-sensitive workloads at the edge to improve user experience worldwide.

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