Show HN: Pipecat – Connect message queues with Unix pipes

[morgenkaffee]

https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/pipecat

[kenny_r]

This looks really cool. I went ahead and added it to the Arch User Repositories[0].

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipecat-bin/

[pdkl95]

Ok, I know message queues[1] are not the most popular part of System V IPC, but was it really necessary to overload the name?

(I mean ActiveMQ et al overloading "message queue" in general, not you pipecat project)

[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/singlepage/bgipc.html...

[nikolay]

Great job! I am definitely gonna use this daily!

[agborkowski86]

hey guys can u provide usage scenario ?

[nyan4]

Why no 0mq? :)

[morgenkaffee → nyan4]

I don't have any experience with zeromq as I mostly deal with AMQP protocols. But good that you mention it - if there is a demand I can dig into it.

There are quite a few other message queue systems out there. I can also imagine that pipecat could work as a kind of migration systems between them. But this probably should be a separate tool as it requires shuffling around metadata as well.

[jbverschoor]

Very cool!

[sjs382]

That logo... yikes.

[lps41 → sjs382]

Yeah... Maybe change it to a cat crawling into a pipe? Depicted from the side?

[dexwiz → sjs382]

Well it's...memorable?

[morgenkaffee → dexwiz]

Now that I look at it again it also seems offensive. Switched it to a more boring but more suitable logo.

Thanks.

[tokenizerrr → morgenkaffee]

I didn't see anything wrong with the old logo. Too bad you felt the need to change it.

[tekromancr → tokenizerrr]

Yea, cats have/are prominent assholes. It's just how they are!

[sjs382 → morgenkaffee]

I actually liked the original logo, despite my comment. The new one works very well, too.