Investigating `TIPC`, the "end game" cluster proto maybe?

[goodboy]

I couldn't believe I hadn't heard of it before and shockingly it's
been in the linux kernel for >= a decade ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_Inter-process_Communication

The feature set seems like everything you'd want in a "scalability
proto" (aka zmq/nanomsg(ng) et al) but already encapsulated in
a posix socket API:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_Inter-process_Communication#Features

  • bearer tpts include udp and ethernet the latter pairing most
    excellent with (dynamic) wireguard tunnelling if desiring
    secure low-latency usage.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_Inter-process_Communication#Service_addressing

  • optional (but recommended), hybrid dual link deployment support that enables
    a combo of resiliency/load-balancing on multihomed systems.

The only downside(s) I seem to be finding are,

• not a lot of usage (mostly bc peeps don't know about it ??)
• using a more recent kernel is recommended and in some cases docs
  might be out of date?
• see a deeper summary @ SO here,
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2890263/tipc-networking-protocol-in-linux/74294294#74294294

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Check this resource list,

• the project home page:

  • http://tipc.io/
  • http://tipc.io/protocol.html
  • http://tipc.io/getting_started.html
  • http://tipc.io/programming.html#python_api
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/tipc/files/

• kernel docs/src:

  • https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tipc.html
  • https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/net/tipc.h#L4
    • yes appears to have been written and maintained by team
      erlang 👀

• cpython support (which also has existed for ages..),

  • docs: https://docs.python.org/3.13/library/socket.html
  • patch: Make socket support TIPC. python/cpython#45987 (comment)

• 3rd party py libs (obvi all a bit old),

  • https://blitiri.com.ar/p/pytipc/
    • https://blitiri.com.ar/git/r/pytipc/
  • https://github.com/Hugne/tipc_python
    • https://hugne.github.io/2015/04/01/tipc-docker/
    • https://hugne.github.io/2015/04/01/tipc-and-traffic-control/