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by JohnConnor 5260 days ago
It seems to me that the hook.io project would make an ideal candidate for the software to connect these devices.

https://github.com/hookio/hook.io

hook.io is all about building the software for connecting devices together to do functionality like this. It would be amazing to see this coupled with actual custom hardware.
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schappim 5260 days ago
Hook.io looks great! FYI we're actually using http://www.zeromq.org/ and getting 10,000 messages per second off the Ninja Block ;-)

Cheers,

Marcus

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JohnConnor 5260 days ago
You should consider ZeroMQ a messaging protocol.

hook.io supports multi-transport messaging protocols.

There has been lots of talk of ZeroMQ as a message transport in hook.io, it's coming soon.

IMO, you shouldn't be worried about messages per second between devices right now. You should be worried about how you are going to communicate between 1000s of 3rd party services. hook.io aims to solve that problem.

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bryanh 5260 days ago
Listen to this man! We're struggling with the same thing at my startup (https://zapier.com/), and having a robust way to hit some of the crazy API's out there is by far the most difficult thing we've come across.
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