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Damian edited this page Jan 24, 2026 · 1 revision

Lite.EventIpc offers baked in Inter-Process Communication (IPC) Transports so you can quickly and easily integrate it into your application.

Examples of IPC Transports

TCP/IP (cross-platform)
Memory-Mapped IPC Transport (Windows OS only)
Named Pipes
DBus (Linux/Unix systems)

When to use IPC

IPC is best used when your application needs to communicate ...

Between 2 or more applications
Across local services
Across containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Across machines (TCP/IP transport is GREAT for this)