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Re:Pux – High Performance Router for PHP by sixthloginorso on Sunday January 12, 2014 @02:45PM (#7047157)
Web application development. I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.
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Re:Pux – High Performance Router for PHP by itafroma on Sunday January 12, 2014 @03:32PM (#7047335)
> Web application development.

I don't know if I'd make that distinction. Routing certainly gets a lot of use in web application development, but routing at the application level is not web-specific: examples of the pattern can be found in the Android SDK,[1] userland Android/iOS development,[2] and in a number of EIPs.[3]

> I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.

I don't discount this at all, but I do think it's pretty obvious from the context and the README which type of routing this library provides.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaRo...

[2]: https://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable/

[3]: http://www.eaipatterns.com/MessageRoutingIntro.html

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Re:Pux – High Performance Router for PHP by jkrems on Sunday January 12, 2014 @03:19PM (#7047281)
> writing documentation for an intended audience

Yes, and web application developers are the intended audience.

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