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ZeroMQ
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ZeroMQ

by Pieter Hintjens
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
516 pages
15h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 2. Sockets and Patterns

In Chapter 1 we took ØMQ for a drive, with some basic examples of the main ØMQ patterns: request-reply, publish-subscribe, and pipeline. In this chapter, we’re going to get our hands dirty and start to learn how to use these tools in real programs.

We’ll cover:

  • How to create and work with ØMQ sockets

  • How to send and receive messages on sockets

  • How to build your apps around ØMQ’s asynchronous I/O model

  • How to handle multiple sockets in one thread

  • How to handle fatal and nonfatal errors properly

  • How to handle interrupt signals like Ctrl-C

  • How to shut down a ØMQ application cleanly

  • How to check a ØMQ application for memory leaks

  • How to send and receive multipart messages

  • How to forward messages across networks

  • How to build a simple message queuing broker

  • How to write multithreaded applications with ØMQ

  • How to use ØMQ to signal between threads

  • How to use ØMQ to coordinate a network of nodes

  • How to create and use message envelopes for publish-subscribe

  • How to use the high-water mark (HWM) to protect against memory overflows

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