Bridge

Infrastructure

messaging middleware

SHOW HN2012

105points
21comments
#205of 1,677 in 2012
Top 13%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.

Idea: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Looks like it could change the game if cross-platform support and security hold up

    From 1 comment
    • This is going to change the game, I think. It'll come down to cross platform support and security. Once those two bases are covered, the rest will be a walk in the park for…
      voxx on HN

Objections

  • Homepage is sparse on specifics and pricing model is unclear

    From 2 comments
    • At first sight, this seems awesome. I've been looking for something like this for a while. However, The homepage seems to be a little sparse in terms of specifics. Before…
      SeoxyS on HN
    • I totally misread this and, after a glance, thought that it was a nice cross-language RPC library. Like many fiddly bits, whipping up a quick protocol is simple (and I've built…
      CoffeeDregs on HN
  • Unclear advantage over ZeroMQ with Socket.io or existing RPC tools

    From 3 comments
    • It wasn't really clear to me what the advantages of this is over a ZMQ+Socket.io based system. The aim is a fully-baked SAAS I suppose, but it seems we already have all the…
      rll on HN
    • Ok, I'll ask the obvious question: how is this an improvement over Thrift, Protocol Buffers or Avro?
      yummyfajitas on HN
    • this seems to solve the same problem that ØMQ solves. Plus SDKs.
      xal on HN
  • No timeout handling for requests to unresponsive servers

    From 2 comments
    • can you describe how timeouts are handled ? thanks !
      signa11 on HN
    • hmm, probably I dont't understand it that well then. assume that a client sends an async request to a server, but server being down, busy whatever, doesn't respond, a client…
      signa11 on HN
  • Black-box 'magic scalability' claims are worrying

    From 1 comment
    • At first sight, this seems awesome. I've been looking for something like this for a while. However, The homepage seems to be a little sparse in terms of specifics. Before…
      SeoxyS on HN

Requests

  • Clearer documentation of how the system works and is deployed

    From 1 comment
    • At first sight, this seems awesome. I've been looking for something like this for a while. However, The homepage seems to be a little sparse in terms of specifics. Before…
      SeoxyS on HN
  • Explain how timeouts are handled

    From 1 comment
    • can you describe how timeouts are handled ? thanks !
      signa11 on HN

Questions

  • How is it different from Firebase, ObjectFabric, Thrift, Protocol Buffers or Avro?

    From 2 comments
    • RPC = old skool, ha! What do you differently from Firebase.com? Or objectfabric.com?
      dirkdk on HN
    • Ok, I'll ask the obvious question: how is this an improvement over Thrift, Protocol Buffers or Avro?
      yummyfajitas on HN
  • Is it a library or a service?

    From 1 comment
    • I totally misread this and, after a glance, thought that it was a nice cross-language RPC library. Like many fiddly bits, whipping up a quick protocol is simple (and I've built…
      CoffeeDregs on HN

Alternatives named

  • ZeroMQ with Socket.io

    From 1 comment
    • It wasn't really clear to me what the advantages of this is over a ZMQ+Socket.io based system. The aim is a fully-baked SAAS I suppose, but it seems we already have all the…
      rll on HN
  • Thrift, Protocol Buffers, Avro

    From 2 comments
    • Ok, I'll ask the obvious question: how is this an improvement over Thrift, Protocol Buffers or Avro?
      yummyfajitas on HN
    • Thrift provides server-client implementations, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Thrift
      newhouseb on HN
  • Firebase and ObjectFabric

    From 1 comment
    • RPC = old skool, ha! What do you differently from Firebase.com? Or objectfabric.com?
      dirkdk on HN
  • Node.js self-hosted messaging

    From 1 comment
    • Meh, nodejs makes this type of service obsolete. I can host my own messaging system now, thanks anyways.
      wavephorm on HN

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