This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.
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What happened after 2010?
Summary: use good/established messaging patterns like Enterprise Integration Patterns. Don't make up your own. Don't expose transport implementation details to your application.
As much as possible, I prefer to hide Rabbit's implementation details from my application. In .Net we have a Broker abstraction that can communicate through a lot of different transports (rabbit just happens to be our preferred one). The broker allows us to expose a very simple API which is basically:
| clear | |
| echo -e "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n" | |
| if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then | |
| echo "This script must NOT be run as \"root\" OR as \"sudo $USER\"; please try again." 1>&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| # | |
| # BEGIN WELCOME SCREEN & INITIAL UPDATING | |
| # | |
| clear |
| I love Perl 6 asynchronous features. They are so easy to use and can give instant boost by changing few lines of code that I got addicted to them. I became asynchronous junkie. And finally overdosed. Here is my story... | |
| I was processing a document that was divided into chapters, sub-chapters, sub-sub-chapters and so on. Parsed to data structure it looked like this: | |
| my %document = ( | |
| '1' => { | |
| '1.1' => 'Lorem ipsum', | |
| '1.2' => { | |
| '1.2.1' => 'Lorem ipsum', | |
| '1.2.2' => 'Lorem ipsum' |
| <head> | |
| <title>meteor_servercall</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| {{> simple}} | |
| {{> passData}} | |
| </body> | |
| <template name="simple"> |