ØMQ - Fast, Broker-Free Messaging
ZeroMQ (or ØMQ) is an open source messaging library supported by the iMatix Corporation. It has been described as messaging middleware, TCP on steroids, and now is just "a new layer on the networking...
View ArticleZeroMQ Flow Control and Other Options
In a previous post, I provided an introduction to ZeroMQ. Continuing along with ZeroMQ, today I'd like to take a look at how you manage various "socket options" in ZeroMQ, particularly when it comes to...
View ArticleZeroMQ is the Answer
ZeroMQ is the answer, by Ian Barber from PHP UK Conferences on Vimeo. Preview Text: This article will look at how you can easily distribute work to background processes, provide flexible service...
View ArticleZeroMQ: Popular and Controversial
I found a very good review of ZeroMQ from Pieter Hintjens, a veteran in distributed software. He not only had a strength and weakness review of ZeroMQ, but he also had an interesting and critical...
View ArticleZeroMQ Example w/ PHP
Check out this short example using the lightweight ZeroMQ message broker for PHP by Gonzalo Ayuso, a DZone MVB. Preview Text: Check out this short example using the lightweight ZeroMQ message broker...
View ArticleEnqueue Symfony’s Process Components with PHP and ZeroMQ
Today I’d like to play with ZeroMQ. ZeroMQ is a great tool to work with sockets. I will show you the problem that I want to solve: One web application needs to execute background processes but I need...
View ArticleThe ZeroMQ Docs Are Actually Pretty Funny
If you've read the ZeroMQ docs before, you probably noticed a few pockets of good old-fashioned corny nerd humor. It seems that the authors had a little fun when creating the docs as you see in this...
View ArticleNanomsg, the Next Gen ZeroMQ, is Here
Martin Sustrik, one of the co-creators of ZeroMQ, has been working on a new messaging library called Nanomsg to surpass the lightweight power of ZeroMQ. You could almost think about Nanomsg as...
View ArticleZeroMQ at Spotify
This article from PyCon was titled "How we use Python at Spotify" but I wanted to focus on the fact that they also use ZeroMQ. It's a little difficult to find a list of the big-name companies that use...
View ArticleNanomsg: The Last Few Months in Review
Nanomsg, a fork of the ZeroMQ broker, is moving along smoothly this year. It recently reached version 0.3.3, which I didn't find much information on, but I thought I'd get you caught up if you're not...
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