[larsf]

Pipes are probably the original instantiation of dataflow processing (dating back to the 1960s). I gave a tech talk on some of the frameworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oaelUXh7sE

And my company creates a cool dataflow platform - https://composableanalytics.com

[noselasd]

http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/ . And there's a bit more about how pipes came to be in unix here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html