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iMatix Corporation
Company blog · imatix.com/articlessystemsprogramming
iMatix Corporation is the company blog at imatix.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “What's wrong with amqp (2008)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link iMatix's blog for Pieter Hintjens' writing on messaging protocols, especially critiques of AMQP, and on model-driven code generation and enterprise software design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What's wrong with amqp (2008)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-25
- What is wrong with amqp?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-02
What Hacker News says?
Tribute to Hintjens' great work and ideas. Man is like the Bernstein of enterprise software with great balance of unconventional design, correctness, performance, and innovation. Here's a list of some of his work for those interested: A great write-up on his theory of model-driven development and the tech that underpinned most of iMatix: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... . Their website…
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on “A Protocol for Dying”Submitted What is wrong with amqp? as a story · 23 points
HN discussionBinary formats have their drawbacks - the guy that designed the AMQP protocol called the wire protocol he designed for it an "expert mistake". Admittedly he was designing a spec rather than a product but worth understanding. Source is a long but very interesting read about messaging, amqp, zeromq and others: http://www.imatix.com/articles:whats-wrong-with-amqp
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on “NSQ – A realtime distributed messaging platform”Submitted Zeromq and the Crossroads fork as a story · 18 points
HN discussionA great write-up on his theory of model-driven development and the tech that underpinned most of iMatix: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... Their website is a slide-show demonstrating their amazing work: http://www.imatix.com/ Generating servers from state machines and such: http://hintjens.com/blog:75 SMT kernel for portable, multi-threaded, fast code: http://legacy.imatix.com/html/smt/…
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on “GSL – a Universal Code Generator”Submitted How To Build Utterly Reliable Systems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere is a short critique of AMQP, it's dated but still accurate: http://www.imatix.com/articles:necessary-changes-in-amqp We've waited 6 years for AMQP to develop a community and address basic issues such as its complexity and high cost of change. No progress... despite years (literally) of work to try to open the AMQP workgroup to wider participation. We love the idea of open messaging protocols and invested a pain…
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on “IMatix: AMQP ‘fundamentally flawed’”Submitted What's wrong with AMQP? (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's wrong with amqp (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is wrong with AMQP (and how to fix it) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RestMS: messaging over http as a story · 1 points
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