[zeromq-dev] Distributed pipes

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Michel Pelletier
<pelletier.michel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't used it, but ZeroVM looks pretty cool, process containers in
> general are getting a lot of press lately.  I can see how a distributed pipe
> system would give them a nice simple tool on top to interconnect sandboxed
> processes in a controlled way.  Is there some issue or proposal they are
> working on?

We're doing this step by step. I'm not sure ZeroVM is using zpipes
yet... soon though.

> I put some thought into but didn't spike any code on an evolution of the
> nerve idea.  I've been informally calling them zerodog and zerocat.

Oh dear, Cutism... I've been so guilty of that too. I've learned that
inventing concepts is often a sign of failure rather than success. :)
The dog/cat model does sound much like distributed pipes.

> There's an interesting pattern here, distributed management of not only
> processes but also the streams of data they produce.  Food for thought.

One thing we lack in ZeroMQ generally is resilience, supervisor trees and such.

-Pieter