Unix pipes on steroi^Wzeromq

About zeromq

Sockets on steroids
Rich set of communication patterns REQ/REP, PUSH/PULL, PUB/SUB, ...
A lot of trasports
- inproc://
- ipc://
- tcp://
- TIPC, UDP, VMCI
Engines written in C++ (libzmq), Java and .NET
Python API are well maintained, links to C++ engine

Unix pipes

pass data from one process to an another one

$ cat /etc/passwd | wc -l 42

zsubproc

Under active development
Inspired by Python subprocess module
Spawns monitoring actor (thread), which push execute program, setup pipes and push data from/to zeromq sockets
Creates pair of inproc sockets by default
But allows to set the read (stdin) or write (stdout, stderr) socket