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MQTT

Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper · 1999

MQTT delivers what it promised in 1999: a lean, brokered telemetry protocol for expensive, low-bandwidth links. It works — but only where its constraints match your environment. Its standardisation cemented utility, not evolution.