Re:Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker
by joezydeco on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:49PM
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I'm running Mosquitto as the central messaging broker on an embedded Linux product right now. It's super lightweight.
Running the broker on the target has been a really great thing during development. I can run validation systems on other machines and inject messages over the wire, or I can actually run the UI on my dev machine and let the backend respond from a live target.
I also have a development team in Asia that can't get to the newest hardware, so I fire up a system here and open a port they can access. They love it.
That said, the bandwidth in MQTT is lightweight but you still need a TCP/IP stack on your system. That's typically more substantial of a footprint than Mosquitto will be at the end of the day.
Running the broker on the target has been a really great thing during development. I can run validation systems on other machines and inject messages over the wire, or I can actually run the UI on my dev machine and let the backend respond from a live target.
I also have a development team in Asia that can't get to the newest hardware, so I fire up a system here and open a port they can access. They love it.
That said, the bandwidth in MQTT is lightweight but you still need a TCP/IP stack on your system. That's typically more substantial of a footprint than Mosquitto will be at the end of the day.