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A real modern communication would be something like NATS (somewhat similar to ZeroMQ in concepts). It's quite amazing, even more frictionless than ZeroMQ.

jdnier 5y ago
Details on NATS: https://nats.io/ https://nats.io/ https://github.com/nats-io https://github.com/nats-io
djstein 5y ago
How is this different from RabbitMQ?
- tyingq 5y ago
  There's a comparison page that includes RabbitMQ here: https://docs.nats.io/compare-nats https://docs.nats.io/compare-nats
  - iamcreasy 5y ago
    Any idea why ZeroMQ is missing in the article?
    - tyingq 5y ago
      Maybe because the actual use of ZeroMQ varies a lot. Some brokerless-daisy-chain, some brokerless-mesh, some paired with brokers of different types (Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, others), and so on. So a comparison would be hard.
ssss11 5y ago
What does NATS do that you think is amazing?
- htjglhktbrn 5y ago
  It took me two days to learn it's specifics 3 years ago, and after that I never-ever had a problem with it. ItJustWorks(TM). In this sense it's a bit like Sqlite, which also JustWorks, as opposed to something like Postgres which requires more fiddling and maintenance. And functionally, it allowed me to create a service-bus topology where multiple processes can post messages on a set of subjects that can be subscribed by multiple other processes (think stock market quotes). This pattern is surprisingly difficult to implement in other message brokers.
  - oaiey 5y ago
    Enlighten me on surprisingly difficult? Topics are a pretty well known feature. The key difference between nats and rabbitmq is that nats disconnects a consumer if it is not fast enough which is the key differentiator for nats.
nine_k 5y ago
...as long as you are not sensitive to delays. Not sound, not video, not games.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  Low latency networking is so ignored, it's like a dark art. I tried to play with it at one point. I got stuck at encryption There is SSL support everywhere, but nothing seems to support DTLS? Do people even use it?

jdnier 5y ago

Details on NATS: https://nats.io/ https://nats.io/ https://github.com/nats-io https://github.com/nats-io

djstein 5y ago

How is this different from RabbitMQ?

tyingq 5y ago
There's a comparison page that includes RabbitMQ here: https://docs.nats.io/compare-nats https://docs.nats.io/compare-nats
- iamcreasy 5y ago
  Any idea why ZeroMQ is missing in the article?
  - tyingq 5y ago
    Maybe because the actual use of ZeroMQ varies a lot. Some brokerless-daisy-chain, some brokerless-mesh, some paired with brokers of different types (Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, others), and so on. So a comparison would be hard.

ssss11 5y ago

What does NATS do that you think is amazing?

htjglhktbrn 5y ago
It took me two days to learn it's specifics 3 years ago, and after that I never-ever had a problem with it. ItJustWorks(TM). In this sense it's a bit like Sqlite, which also JustWorks, as opposed to something like Postgres which requires more fiddling and maintenance. And functionally, it allowed me to create a service-bus topology where multiple processes can post messages on a set of subjects that can be subscribed by multiple other processes (think stock market quotes). This pattern is surprisingly difficult to implement in other message brokers.
- oaiey 5y ago
  Enlighten me on surprisingly difficult? Topics are a pretty well known feature. The key difference between nats and rabbitmq is that nats disconnects a consumer if it is not fast enough which is the key differentiator for nats.

nine_k 5y ago

...as long as you are not sensitive to delays. Not sound, not video, not games.

ClumsyPilot 5y ago
Low latency networking is so ignored, it's like a dark art. I tried to play with it at one point. I got stuck at encryption There is SSL support everywhere, but nothing seems to support DTLS? Do people even use it?