ZeroMQ: Disconnects are Good for You written on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 ZeroMQ is a cool technology. It's advertised as “better sockets” and I can get behind that idea for the most part. Unfortunately the high abstraction also makes it very easy to write applications that become unresponsive. That's because ZeroMQ has an implicit state machine for a very common socket type that can get stuck in the