ZeroMQ: Sockets on steroids

It's 2012, the world's supposedly coming to an end and communication's still more painful than it should be. ZeroMQ is a socket abstraction and concurrency framework ("scripting for sockets") that's changing the way we think and reason about distributed systems.

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3. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Agenda 35k feet view Messages and patterns Transports Devices Resiliency Rewby Tuesday, June 5, 12
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6. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Not portable Standards compliance, meh Socket options Error codes Ruby abstracts most of these Tuesday, June 5, 12
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23. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Request / reply REQ REP REQ REP REP REP REQ REQ Tuesday, June 5, 12
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29. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Pipeline Supported patterns Tuesday, June 5, 12
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45. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Then Costly transactions Small topology Large ops team Little churn Tuesday, June 5, 12
46. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Now Negligible transaction cost Large topology Small ops team Rapid churn rate Tuesday, June 5, 12
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49. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Lab: 6 000 000 msgs/s Ruby: 200 000 msgs/s (16 byte) Numbers Tuesday, June 5, 12
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52. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Optimizations Dedicated I/O thread I/O model suits scripting languages Syscalls and allocations VSM (very small messages) Tuesday, June 5, 12
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60. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 Mongrel2 Case study Tuesday, June 5, 12
61. Wildfire Interactive, Inc. | 1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063 | (888) 274-0929 How it works Multi-protocol ZeroMQ for backends Async backend requests Language agnostic (bindings) Tuesday, June 5, 12
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