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Life & fun · December 11, 2014

I wrote an OSS message queue for your embedded devices in Go

I wrote an OSS message queue for your embedded devices in Go launched on December 11, 2014 with 9 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

As you may recall, I have hooked up various parts of my house to a computer so I can control them remotely. To do that, I have an HTTP server for which I open a port, and everything runs on this server, but what if I need to add another device? What if I need to have multiple devices listening for a command? Having to open a port for each and every one of them, exposing them to the internet and configuring all this is a huge hassle, a security problem and very brittle. Wouldn’t it be much better if there were a centralized message queue where I could post messages and have an arbitrary number of devices read them? It turns out, the excellent folks at dweet.io have done exactly this.…from stavros.io

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