ZeroMQ

Tom van Leeuwen’s Story

“I was looking at creating some kind of service bus connecting all kinds of services together. There were already some products that implemented a broker, but they did not have the functionality I needed. By accident, I stumbled upon ØMQ, which is awesome. It’s very lightweight, lean, simple, and easy to follow since the book is very complete and reads very well. I’ve actually implemented the Titanic pattern and the Majordomo broker with some additions (client/worker authentication and workers sending a catalog explaining what they provide and how they should be addressed).

“The beautiful thing about ØMQ is the fact that it is a library and not an application. You can mold it however you like and it simply puts boring things like queuing, reconnecting, TCP sockets and such to the background, making sure you can concentrate on what is important for you. I’ve implemented all kinds of workers/clients and the broker in Ruby, because that is the main language we use for development, but also some PHP clients to connect to the bus from existing PHP webapps. We use this service bus for cloud services connecting all kinds of platform devices to a service bus exposing functionality for automation.

“ØMQ is very easy to understand and if you spend a day in this book, you’ll have good knowledge of how it works. I’m a network engineer, not a software developer, but managed to create a very nice solution for our automation needs! ØMQ: Thank you very much!”