[HN Gopher] Modern Communication: Sockets ___________________________________________________________________ Modern Communication: Sockets Author : yawaramin Score : 26 points Date : 2021-09-25 21:19 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ocaml.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (ocaml.github.io) | htjglhktbrn wrote: | 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 wrote: | Details on NATS: | | https://nats.io/ | | https://github.com/nats-io | djstein wrote: | How is this different from RabbitMQ? | tyingq wrote: | There's a comparison page that includes RabbitMQ here: | https://docs.nats.io/compare-nats | ssss11 wrote: | What does NATS do that you think is amazing? | htjglhktbrn wrote: | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-25 23:00 UTC)