Hurricane: An Infinitely Scalable Messaging System

http://icheishvili.github.com/hurricane/

by someone13 • 15 years ago

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dy• 15 years ago

Looks very cool - some suggestions for the README:

- who's sponsoring and using this?

- how does it compare to other message buses

- why should someone consider moving [0mq, rabbit, activemq] to this?

someone13• 15 years ago

For the record - I'm the submitter, but not affiliated with this project in any way - I just saw it on /r/programming over at Reddit and figured that some of the people here might be interested :-)

coutud• 15 years ago

Hum, I'm not overly impressed. Yes, erlang is nice, and I guess that using it to create some messaging broker is probably good, but I don't see what this projects adds compared to zeromq for example. 0MQ having the advantage of its large community, company-backed development, and (most importantly) brokerless messaging ...

jameskilton• 15 years ago

The project page never uses the word "infinitely", simply "scalable". The project is obviously very new, but I have to note:

* There's no use of OTP anywhere.

* It has an inferior re-implementation of a supervisor

* None of the language implementations use BERT[1], but instead re-implements this in ways that will make common users of that language cringe (particularly Ruby)

* Does the author realizes that scalability is a lot harder than just using erlang's built-in node graph system?

Don't get me wrong, I wish the author the best, but using Erlang comes with a number of assumptions, and without these it's going to be hard to be taken seriously, especially in a field that's well dominated by RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ.

[1]http://bert-rpc.org/ bottom of page has implementations of BERT serializers in many languages

Hurricane: An Infinitely Scalable Messaging System

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