distxAP

DistxAP is an open-standard framework for distributed application programming that facilitates high-throughput, low-latency communication across process and network boundaries. The name distxAP derives from distributed cross-application protocol.

Design goals include interoperability, pluggable transports, and minimal boilerplate for developers. It provides a unified API for RPC, pub/sub, and streaming, decoupled from specific transport or serialization formats.

Architecture: At its core, distxAP defines a message envelope with routing metadata, correlation identifiers, and error handling. The system separates concerns into a protocol layer (serialization and framing), a transport layer (TCP, UDP, RDMA, WebSockets), and a middleware layer (RPC, pub/sub, streams). It includes service discovery, authentication via TLS, and optional end-to-end encryption.

APIs and integrations: Client libraries are available in Python, Go, and Java, with Node.js bindings in progress. Serialization backends include Protocol Buffers, MessagePack, and JSON. Plugins exist for Kubernetes and cloud-native service meshes.

Use cases: distxAP is used in distributed machine-learning inference, real-time analytics, microservices orchestration, edge computing, and IoT data aggregation.

Adoption and status: The project maintains an open-source repository and governance model under a permissive license. Versioning follows semantic versioning, and backward compatibility is emphasized for minor releases.

See also: gRPC, ZeroMQ, Apache Kafka, MQTT, Thrift.