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Nice one, looks quite similar indeed! May I ask why did you discontinue the further work?
Probably because there's a very low value in building message streaming framework once you've done the basics: how do you come to, say, a trading broker and say "your order management system could be just as fast with my other messaging framework". He did it to learn and have fun, but finishing it to be prod-ready would require at least one user.
That was indeed a big parameter. We missed someone on the team able to connect to us to one or two large early adopters. We learned that building a good product and building a company selling it are two very different things !