Introducing Miranda: Why You Want Miranda

In preparation for a talk I'm giving at DOSUG I'm going to post my thoughts as they develop.

I have gone over a lot of topics concerning Miranda including:

• The motivation for creating it
• We want 9 9s of reliability
• But we don't want to pay for it
• Prospero gives us between 5 and 6 9s of reliablity but has problems
• Miranda was created to address those problems
• How it works
• Admins create a local certificate authority
• Admins create users
• Users create Topics and Events
• Users create Subscriptions
• Miranda delivers Events to users
• Why it wont crash
• Miranda is distributed and fault-tolerant
• Each subsystem runs in its own thread
• Threads catch Exception
• Miranda uses panics instead of System.exit
• Why it's secure
• Opensource
• Miranda uses SSL/TLS for all communication
• Miranda encrypts all files
• Miranda asks for a password at startup

The conclusion is to use Miranda when your in the "we want 9 9s of reliability" situation.