Code Connected Volume 1

by Pieter Hintjens

Code Connected is Pieter Hintjens' guide to building distributed software in any language. He writes, "We live in a connected world, and modern software has to navigate this world. So the building blocks for tomorrow's very largest solutions are connected and massively parallel. It's not enough for code to be "strong and silent" any more. Code has to talk to code. Code has to be chatty, sociable, well-connected. Code has to run like the human brain, trillions of individual neurons firing off messages to each other, a massively parallel network with no central control, no single point of failure, yet able to solve immensely difficult problems. And it's no accident that the future of code looks like the human brain, because the endpoints of every network are, at some level, human brains."

If you are a programmer, working in C, C++, C#, Clojure, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Haxe, Java, Lisp, Lua, Node.js, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, or Tcl, and you aim to build multithreaded or distributed systems, then this book is essential reading.

Code Connected Volume 1 takes you through learning ZeroMQ (0MQ), step-by-step, with over 80 examples. You will learn the basics, the API, the different socket types and how they work, reliability, and a host of patterns you can use in your applications.

328 pages, ebook

First published December 22, 2012

About the author

a software developer and past president of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an association that fights against software patents. In 2007, he was nominated one of the "50 most influential people in IP" by Managing Intellectual Property magazine.

Reviews

[Korneliusz Caputa · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is not enough stars on Goodreads to rate this book.
Perfect guidance through the rather steep learning curve, from architectural concepts to concrete implementations.
A multitude of mostly quite elaborate examples is provided, each of which is extensively and accesibly explained.

This book is a must read, even if you are not going to use ZeroMQ in the immediate future.
The presented information helps to connect the dots on the challenges and characteristics of progamming systems targeted to work in a distributed environment.

[Ian Whittley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this to teach me about the zero MQ library but it goes a lot further than that. Nice in depth introduction to programming networked devices.