NInickik·Nov 16, 2011
Well I think its only cheaper at first and even if people know better they are forced to use a stupid java framework (that abstracts away the network) even if the know that it will end up badly.
A other problem is that people often get tought that you need <input some bad framework>. You can't do distributed computing if you done use some kind of framework. At least the places I know they would never tell you something like "just send json from one node to the other if thats all you need".
At clojure conj there where some talks about this, but the videos are not out jet. See these presentation on Concurrent Stream Processing (https://github.com/relevance/clojure-conj/blob/master/2011-s...) or this on Logs as Data (https://github.com/relevance/clojure-conj/blob/master/2011-s...)
For a other example that works in quite simular ways look at
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Storm (in use at twitter. Its all sequential abstractions. See this video by Nathan Marz (look all videos you can find):
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Storm
For a more philospical perspective look at the videos by rich hickey:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy