Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
ZeroMQ: “Pimped Socket Interface”
Nicholas Piel gives a great introduction to ZeroMQ:
But while the library may feel small it has a grand vision of being the new messaging layer. And really, it is not that weird when you come to think of it. Scalability issues are mostly just communication and portability issues, ZeroMQ can solve these problems for you.
And here’s another bit of wisdom from 0MQ - The Guide:
What we need is something that does the job of messaging but does it in such a simple and cheap way that it can work in any application, with close to zero cost. It should be a library that you just link with, without any other dependencies. No additional moving pieces, so no additional risk. It should run on any OS and work with any programming language.
And this is 0MQ: an efficient, embeddable library that solves most of the problems an application needs to become nicely elastic across a network, without much cost.
