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Iris: Decentralized Cloud Messaging

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For anyone interested, I did a write up on Iris a few weeks ago, including how it stacks up to other golang messaging libraries. http://www.bravenewgeek.com/iris-decentralized-cloud-messagi...

Thanks for sharing, very interesting article. Your previous post is great (and relevant) too: "Dissecting Message Queues".

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/dissecting-message-queues/

Nice project, but it seems like it would need some (financial?) support:

> As of the current release, my focus will shift back to finalizing my dissertation and inherently, my PhD. Since I can no longer rely on university support for Iris, I am actively looking for an official backer who would be interested in taking Iris to the next level and turning it into an industrial strength project. If you are interested, or know of such a person, please contact me at peterke@gmail.com.

Without wanting to sound too plain/blunt, as much as I like working on Iris and giving it to the community for free, I also need to make a living. Hence why I am looking for a backer, to be able to continue it.

On another note, the project is getting quite large with a lot of different things to work on, but I'm a single person with limited time. So while financial support is nice, I'm also open to possibilities of taking Iris under the umbrella of a corporation which would have the necessary expertise to really expand it.

Péter Szilágyi, creator of Iris, gave an excellent talk about it at FOSDEM this year: https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/iris_decentra...

Github repos: https://github.com/project-iris

Just thought I'd be pedantic and point out that all the Go examples on that page aren't "package main", but are defining a main func; they won't compile to a binary.

Yes, the point with the package naming was to convey some additional information (i.e. erlclient, goserver, etc) to keep the snippet size down. I think they are understandable and workable as is, but nontheless you are perfectly right with your concern so I might update them at some point :)

Are there Windows/Mac clients for Iris?

Iris was written in Go (with a few platform speficit C snippets) and is available for Linux, OSX, Windows and 32bit/64bit/arm :)

You can download pre-built binaries from http://iris.karalabe.com/downloads (or of course you can compile from source https://github.com/project-iris/iris)

OSS?

Yes, GPL: https://github.com/project-iris/iris/blob/master/LICENSE.md

GPL seems like a sad choice for something that would need mobile apps, there have been problems with the App Store and GPL before for example.

Since Iris was/is my PhD work, and is currently not funded, I decided to release it under GPL to retain some control over what people end up doing with it (by no means do I want to prevent adoption, hence the dual licensing escape clause).

Nonetheless I'm open to discussing other OSS licenses such as BSD or Apache, but I think such issues are a bit further down the road :)

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