Messaging like it’s 1982

A simple talk by Matt George (@binarydud) about how modern message queues have a lot in common with a much older protocol.

From a talk Matt gave at Nashville Code Co-op Talk Day, March 30, 2013.

Transcript

1. Messaging like its 1982 matt george @binarydud
2. EHLO: message queues?
3. Asynchronous Communication
4. Spatially Independent
5. RCPT TO: who are they for?
6. Event Notifications
7. Background Jobs
8. MAIL FROM: what is smtp?
9. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
10. DATA: How does it work?
11. EHLO relay.example.org MAIL FROM:<bob@example.org> RCPT TO:<alice@example.com> DATA Subject: Test message Sending message via smtp QUIT
12. MUA -> MTA -> MTA ->(DNS MX) -> MDA
13. QUIT