Pavel Volokitin is an independent developer whose open-source utilities focus on making command-line workflows more efficient for Windows, macOS, and Linux users. His best-known release, mprocs, is a lightweight TUI manager that spawns and monitors any number of long-running processes inside a single terminal window, letting developers run front-end bundlers, back-end servers, test watchers, or database proxies concurrently without juggling multiple shells or writing fragile bash loops. Typical use cases include starting a React dev-server and its JSON API at the same time, keeping Docker Compose stacks alive while tailing logs, or orchestrating micro-services during local integration testing. Because mprocs reads a simple YAML configuration file, entire environments can be stored in source control and replicated by teammates with one keystroke, eliminating “works-on-my-machine” drift. Keyboard-driven panes show live output, exit codes, and CPU usage, so engineers can spot crashes instantly and restart only the failed service instead of the whole suite. The utility is written in Rust, ships as a single self-contained binary, and consumes minimal memory, making it attractive for CI pipelines, remote pair-programming sessions, or low-resource laptops. Pavel Volokitin’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest upstream build, and can be queued for batch installation alongside other applications.

mprocs

Run multiple commands in parallel

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