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XMPP plus RabbitMQ gateway = high performance Twitter?

by Dave Rosenberg

The Rabbit team just released a RabbitMQ to XMPP gateway proof-of-concept.

RabbitMQ Open Source Enterprise Messaging

RabbitMQ Open Source Enterprise Messaging

(Credit: RabbitMQ)
RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging open source standard for high performance enterprise messaging. Think of AMQP as the open source version of something like MQ Series or other high-volume JMS servers.XMPP is open XML technology for presence and real-time communication.

Message volume shouldn't be a problem for services like Twitter. RabbitMQ with an XMPP gateway might be part of the the solution. The combination means you can inject very high volumes of messages into IM or other XMPP enabled applications with far fewer scale issues.

For the geeks:
The mod_rabbitmq module implements an ejabberd extension module which gateways AMQP (as implemented by RabbitMQ) to XMPP.

Via James Governor Monkchips on Twitter.

Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at softwareinterrupted@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @daveofdoom.
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