Re: [Caml-list] What are people using when writing distributed applications in OCaml?

[Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>]

It depends on what level you're talking.  My distributed systems apps
tend to be functorized over their transport, so I can switch out what
works and what doesn't pretty easily.

I tend to avoid RPC frameworks, I find they focus more on the
computation than on the data, but depending on what you're doing they
could be appropriate.

Unless you're under heavy load, simple HTTP calls with some JSON is
probably sufficient.

Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> If you know about some distributed application that went into production
> and that can happily withstand the fire of production and real world loads, I would be happy to here about which library the system was
> using.
>
> I have heard about MPI and zmq for example, which both have
> ocaml bindings. However, I also know that there are several RPC
> implementations out there (one in ocamlnet, one in mirage, one in core), but I am not sure about which one is the most mature and
> production-tested.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Francois.