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Clemens Vasters
Personal blog · vasters.com/blogprogrammingsystemshardware
Clemens Vasters's personal blog at vasters.com covers programming, systems and hardware. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “MQTT: An Implementer's Perspective”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Clemens Vasters' post on the issues of the MQTT protocol, written from experience implementing MQTT on both client and server sides. It is cited when discussing how hard MQTT is to implement.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Vasters family sites, writing, photography, museums, and archives.
Most-linked posts?
- MQTT: An Implementer's Perspective3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-02
- About Blockchain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-22
What Hacker News says?
Having implemented MQTT on both client and server sides, I have no idea why people keep saying it's easy to implement. Not my post, but an overview of some of its issues: http://vasters.com/clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+... tl;dr: Protocol design and implementation isn't easy.
Comment linking /clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+Perspective.aspx
on “Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin”Submitted MQTT: An Implementer's Perspective as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI wonder why MTQQ has been chosen as protocol. It seems that this protocol has quite some deficiencies according to this article: http://vasters.com/clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+...
Comment linking /clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+Perspective.aspx
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