# PODNAME: Flux
# ABSTRACT: stream processing toolkit

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=pod

=head1 NAME

Flux - stream processing toolkit

=head1 VERSION

version 1.00

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Flux is the stream processing framework.

C<Flux::*> module namespace includes:

=over

=item *

groundwork for interoperable input and output stream classes;

=item *

various implementations of input and output streams and storages: in-memory, file-based, db-based and others;

=item *

tools for making these streams work together nicely: filters, data formatters, overloading syntax sugar, etc;

=item *

C<Flux::Catalog> module for the simple access to your collection of streams.

=back

Flux is a framework, but you can use lower-level parts of it without higher-level parts. For example, you can read and write files with C<Flux::File> without declaring it in the Flux catalog.

=head1 INTERFACE STABILITY NOTICE

This distribution and other C<Flux-*> distributions on CPAN are the result of the refactoring of our in-house framework.

It should be stable. We used it in production for years. But remember that:

1) I'm rewriting this in Moo/Moose, and there can be bugs.

2) I can refactor some API aspects in the process.

3) Not all of the code is uploaded yet.

=head1 SIMILAR MODULES

L<Message::Passing> is similar to Flux.
Unlike Flux, it's asynchronous (Flux can be made asynchronous by using L<Coro>, but its basic APIs are blocking).
Unlike Flux, it doesn't support persistent data storing; Flux has fault-tolerance built in through explicit C<commit>.

L<IO::Pipeline> syntax is similar to Flux filters.

I'm sure there're many others. Stream processing is reinvented often.

=head1 AUTHOR

Vyacheslav Matyukhin <me@berekuk.ru>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Yandex LLC.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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