The sys admin's daily grind – Mosquitto
No Insect Bites
Sys admin Charly does not tend toward hostilities, but he has huge problems with mosquitoes. Despite this, he does make an exception for the Mosquitto message broker.
I recently read that around 100 species become extinct every year. So why not mosquitoes? I am merciless on the issue, because I happen to be allergic to their stings. I can't sleep, with just one of these pests buzzing around my bedroom. My weapon of choice – always at hand to decimate the population of my enemy – is a 30-year-old school atlas beside the bed. But it is still a Sisyphean task.
And the bloodstains on the wallpaper also impact on the kind of atmosphere that I would like have in my bedroom, which explains why I repaper the walls nearly every year. I also failed to secure a majority vote in the family council for my suggestions of adopting mosquito-eating spiders or using a Linux and LiDAR (light detection and ranging) based mosquito laser. War is always miserable.
You will thus understand that my response to a piece of software named after these flying bloodsuckers was somewhat skeptical. However, this much I will reveal in advance, Mosquitto [1] is allowed to stay. The tool was given its name, because the developer wanted to have the letters MQTT in there somewhere, as the acronym for message queue telemetry transport. And telemetry is the right keyword for describing Mosquitto's task.
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