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Maybe this post should be "Show HN"? I am happy for you, hope this grows! However, may I suggest you add to description on GitHub page some more info? Perform

by annnnd 9y ago

Maybe this post should be "Show HN"? I am happy for you, hope this grows! However, may I suggest you add to description on GitHub page some more info? Performance is only a part of equation and description only talks about that. Did you give any thought to reliability and robustness? How about security? It is written in C++ - was it fuzzed? Does it support TLS? Authentication? These are much more important questions (to me) at this time (disclosure: using Mosquitto and happy with it, didn't hit bottlenecks yet). I have no doubt you will address them sooner or later, but it might be good to start working on some of them as soon as possible - or, if you already have this covered, to write about it. Of course, I might not be your target customer, at least at this stage, in which case please disregard this advice. :)

deepspace 9y ago
I was very excited to see this post since I happen to be looking for a scalable high performance MQTT broker. The first thing I noticed when I opened the GitHub page was the lack of documentation. Then I opened the source files. No headers describing what each module does. No method headers. No code comments. Nothing that would let me get a feel of how well this could fit into my project without doing a lot of code reading... Maybe I'm just an old fart and need to accept that this is the way code is written these days, but with my own projects I always tried to make sure that at least minimal documentation was available and that the code was easy to read and understand before releasing it to the world.
- alexhultman 9y ago
  I'm sorry but HackerNews thinks they know better so they mod the title into something misleading. Original title was "I'm developing a new and faster MQTT broker" with extra focus on "developing". It is a 7 day prototype, not a finished product. The naming is not even known to be final at this point. Thanks
  - deepspace 9y ago
    Ah, that explains a lot - I was not aware that HN was editing titles. Will be watching the project with interest.

by annnnd 9y ago

deepspace 9y ago

I was very excited to see this post since I happen to be looking for a scalable high performance MQTT broker. The first thing I noticed when I opened the GitHub page was the lack of documentation. Then I opened the source files. No headers describing what each module does. No method headers. No code comments. Nothing that would let me get a feel of how well this could fit into my project without doing a lot of code reading... Maybe I'm just an old fart and need to accept that this is the way code is written these days, but with my own projects I always tried to make sure that at least minimal documentation was available and that the code was easy to read and understand before releasing it to the world.

alexhultman 9y ago
I'm sorry but HackerNews thinks they know better so they mod the title into something misleading. Original title was "I'm developing a new and faster MQTT broker" with extra focus on "developing". It is a 7 day prototype, not a finished product. The naming is not even known to be final at this point. Thanks
- deepspace 9y ago
  Ah, that explains a lot - I was not aware that HN was editing titles. Will be watching the project with interest.