Mqtt Broker for 10 Years
Details
- External ID
- 48362378
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Mqtt Broker for 10 Years
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 1, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.703551912568306
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Intended for 10-year (plus hopefully) deployment lifetime on $10-30 of silicon. The kind of thing you screw to a wall, plug in, and walk away from for a decade. No telemetry, no phone-home updates, no external dependencies. Storage decisions get a sanity checked against NVS wear... a write-per-PUBLISH would shred the flash in months, so the retained store and in tables that stay in PSRAM.Its heavily written with AI and borrowed a lot of visuals from Tasmota. Not for production use yet (been currently running it for a month with great results!)
Enrichment
- Theme
- lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mqtt broker for long-term deployment
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Designing an embedded MQTT broker meant to run reliably without intervention for a decade on cheap microcontrollers requires deep low-level embedded systems, wear leveling, and fault-tolerant firmware expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture must be implemented in embedded C or `no_std` Rust on bare metal or an RTOS (like FreeRTOS/Zephyr) targeting microcontrollers (e.g., ESP32, STM32). The critical engineering hurdles are flash memory wear-leveling algorithms, strict zero-memory-leak static allocation, power-loss resilience, and formal verification of network state machines. This requires decades of specialized firmware, electrical, and embedded systems engineering experience.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Raspberry Pi with NATS and Docker
Competitors
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