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ZeroC Blog
Company blog · zeroc.com/blogprogrammingsystems
ZeroC Blog is the company blog at zeroc.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link ZeroC's pages mostly as references for the Ice middleware and its CORBA comparison, not to judge the writing. Linked posts include 'The End of Software Versions'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-15
What Hacker News says?
I think a lot of the "hating" is a side effect of MongoDB being consistently oversold in terms of its capabilities A large part of that is that 10gen are much better at marketing than they are at tech. For example, they like to pitch against the Oracle database, and for certain use cases, MongoDB is better than Oracle RDBMS. But if you were to take those cases to Oracle, they would say well don't use the database fo…
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on “Does everyone hate MongoDB?”Submitted IceRPC: RPC framework for the QUIC era as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI've been actively staying away from CORBA myself. Back in college, we tried our hand at using Ice http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html and it seemed to do the trick. Still, it does assume that both parties have access to the template generated by ice - thus going back to the issues surrounding needing a sort of schema. That being said, there does seem to be options for interacting using json: http://ice2rest.make-i…
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on “XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain”Submitted Making RPCs the other way around as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOur project uses ICE ( http://www.zeroc.com ) for some scalable computing and a large part of the system is indeed written in C++ (with bunch of other libraries). However, developing large scale application in C++ requires discipline even at smaller level (Should I use auto_ptr or shared_ptr? Should I pass by reference or by pointer? Macro or template? GCC does what?). I have found C++ to be too complex to fit withi…
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on “C++ in Coders at Work”Submitted Streamlining .NET QUIC Development with Dev Containers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI had hard a hard Time understanding the fundamental idea. Could some one provide a TL;DR ? My impression is that the versioning of ICE [ http://www.zeroc.com ], I mean the protocol, is the most effective one. The authors learned versioning and interoperability problem the hard way as previous implementors of CORBA. In this model A version is composed of two numbers, the version and the release. When the version is…
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on “The End of Software Versions”Submitted The Significance of Request Deadlines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can use http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ for serialization with ZeroMQ. We are using ICE http://zeroc.com which offers similar features.
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on “PyCon 2011: Interview with Zed Shaw”Submitted Ice – Comprehensive RPC Framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI used http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html on one high-throughput system. Wonder if that has made any inroads.
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on “Spray some NSQ on it”Submitted Ice: a distributed OO middleware I hadn't seen before as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTopic story was not all that interesting (Cisco re-invents the wheel!), but it led me to Thrift ( http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ ) and Ice ( http://zeroc.com/index.html ), which I didn't know about.
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on “ Just What We Need: Another RPC Package ”We still don't have anything that can do what CORBA could do. gRPC doesn't even come close. If you are interested in this type of technology, I recommend looking at ZeroC's Ice. https://zeroc.com It's CORBA with all the warts removed, and a lot of other useful stuff added.
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on “The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)”The name clashes with a similar project that has existed for decades: https://zeroc.com/ice
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on “Simple, fast and open-source PHP framework frozen in C-extension”
