[fleitz]

If you add nc between the pipes you've implemented an ESB :)

But shh, don't tell anyone how easy it is, if everyone figures out just how easy and scalable shell scripts are it will ruin the magic we bring to over-engineered enterprise projects.

[kingmanaz]

If any here think fleitz is joking, please pick up a used copy of Manis, Schaffer, and Jorgensen's "Unix Relational Database Management". The authors create a relational database with little more than awk, cat, grep, od, sed, spell, tail and a bit of bourne-shell glue. After covering the basics of tables and relational theory, the authors create a small-business accounting system. The database became a commercial product (/rdb) and is still sold and used today (allegedly in hospitals).

[fleitz]

And for 'object databases'/ Key value stores implemented on flat files, clone a git repo and cd .git/objects.

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

[dllthomas]

As a very superficial example of this, pianobar is a fantastic terminal-based Pandora client that will happily read input from a FIFO. I had bound keys to issue various commands through the FIFO, on both my laptop and my desktop. Then I found my hands on my laptop keyboard when my music was playing from my desktop (or vice-versa). Simple application of netcat meant my commands could be typed at either keyboard.