[zeromq-dev] Distributed pipes

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi all,

I'm working on a distributed pipes service (in zeromq/zbroker), and
wonder if anyone would like to try this in their work.

The architecture is:

* Client applications read/write from named pipes
* These pipes are hosted on edge brokers, on same box as clients.
* Clients talk to brokers over IPC (ironic, but so it is).
* Brokers interconnect and chat over Zyre.

I'm working out the semantics for N-to-N pipes and may go for a pubsub
model, see https://github.com/zeromq/zbroker/issues/38.

-Pieter