amqp

Latency matters even across the ocean

When I wrote a research note entitled "Latency Matters!" in 2002, I was primarily reacting to the tendency of computer system vendors to highlight how much data they could move around rather than how quickly that data could get from point A to point B. This made comparing server designs--one of my main areas of focus at the time--difficult given that the speed, rather than the amount, of data movement within and between various subsystems was often the more important metric. As I wrote:

Latency is the time that elapses between a request for data and its delivery. … Read more

Third phase of open source: customer participation

BUENOS AIRES--Open source has successfully navigated its first two phases of development and adoption. We're now entering the third, and possibly final, phase: the time when consumers of open-source software also become producers.

Can enterprise IT make the leap?

Billions of dollars in IT investment are at stake. Perhaps even more importantly, billions of lines of code could be, too. While significant software products are written for sale, arguably much more software is written by enterprise IT to run businesses as diverse as Safeway stores and Barclays banks.

Unlocking and distributing the value of that enterprise IT, developed to … Read more

Turning Twitter into an application server

As much as Twitter is a powerful communication and social application, it's a relatively simple Web app. As part of a new contest sponsored by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers are going to turn Twitter into their own application server.

The contest asks developers to program the "Worst App Server Technology Ever" (Waste) using Twitter as the message bus. While much of the contest is being done tongue-in-cheek, it's actually an interesting use case to see if a service like Twitter can take the place of a more traditional message bus like IBM MQ series … Read more

The importance of open source AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol)

Over on Interop Systems, Jeff Gould has posted a series about AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) an open source protocol that takes the place of expensive apps like IBM MQ Series and Tibco Rendezvous.

It's still early days for AMQP with a small number of live implementations but the opportunity to displace the existing monopoly is huge. I've written in the past about how RabbitMQ could be a scaling answer for Twitter as one example.

You might be wondering - how can these guys get away with stonewalling on such a basic requirement as interoperability? The answer is … Read more