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Mathias Meyer
April 22, 2013
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The Message Queue is Dead, Long Live the Message Queue
Ramblings and thought experiments on message queues
Mathias Meyer
April 22, 2013
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Transcript
the message queue is dead railsberry 2013, mathias meyer, @roidrage
travis-ci.org
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the golden rules of message queues
#1 everything is a queue
www email upload live updates
rabbitmq activemq mqseries nsq beanstalkd sqs gearman qless kafka kestrel
qpid sidekiq resque zeromq celery mqseries stormmq amqp jms hornetq swiftmq delayed_job
tasks
publish/subscribe
publish/subscribe
broker
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log streaming databass
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unbounded queues
#2 a queue is either empty or infinitely full
the art of capacity planning
50 msg * 60 seconds * 30 minutes = 90000
msg
peak capacity: 120 msg/s
90000 msg / 120 msg/s = 12,5 min
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#3 whenever something breaks, it's a queue backing up or
dropping messages
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databass x x P x
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retry databass x x P x
exponential backoff databass x x P x
handling queues involves business decisions
a thought experiment
message queues introduce tight coupling
hide the queue api
api
api
the queue is dead, long live the queue
no berries were harmed © railsberry