One of the features I recall liking about the ZMQ "family" of implementations is that they handle a lot of the error handling/reconnection for you. The ZMQ gui

One of the features I recall liking about the ZMQ "family" of implementations is that they handle a lot of the error handling/reconnection for you. The ZMQ guide is actually a great document to read in general terms, I recommend reading it if you are curious about the architectural rationale (which you could, actually, re-implement in your own raw socket protocol): http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all