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		potamic 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny la... Why MQTT over HTTP for a low volume, small scale integration?

c0wb0yc0d3r 6 months ago | [–]

I’m not OP, but I would hazard a guess that those are the tools that OP has at hand.

0xedd 6 months ago | [–]

Good, cheap design that takes care of dead letters vs implementing a failover endpoint that would require extra hardware.

MQTT is plug and play in Python. No more costly than a HTTP server.

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