In the robotics domain you will have dozen of processes on 10+ machines interacting to accomplish very complex tasks. Things like obstacle tracking, terrain cl

In the robotics domain you will have dozen of processes on 10+ machines interacting to accomplish very complex tasks. Things like obstacle tracking, terrain classification, and motion planning. For most of the data flows serialization and comms overhead is minimal, this especially true with efficient binary encodings (faster then protobuf or Jason). For bulk data flows there are optimizations you can use to limit deserialization to once per machine. It is also entirely practical to split up workloads to large for one machine and aggregate results.