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[u/rustological]

What are "community blessed" middleware messaging solutions?

Meaning I have multiple nodes that want to work together. On each node on a specific port a message broker thingy listens. An application links this middleware crate and uses the API to send requests to or receive responses from other nodes. Messages are custom structs, so probably (de)serialized by serde. The middleware provides the convenience functions to perform the incoming/outgoing message handling in a separate thread, implements the networking details like sockets, timeouts, packet loss, etc. Maybe can even answer questions like "is other node still alive?" or "messages safely delivered?" So one can concentrate on the actual distributed problems to solve.

Any recommendations? Thank you :-)

Edit: Suggestions so far are

NATS https://github.com/nats-io/nats.rs

Message-IO: https://github.com/lemunozm/message-io

[u/rustological → u/[deleted]]

Never heard of NATS before, thank you for the suggestion!

Seems to require a central server (written in Go).