Archive for June, 2011

Recently I saw a tweet saying "ZeroMQ Erlangizes everything!" or some such. While I realise that not everything posted on the web is meant seriously, it does seem there is a stream of similar claims lately that ought to be dammed.

In the article Multi-threading Magic[1], Pieter Hintjens and Martin Sústrik persuasively explain why concurrency is better served by message-passing than by locks and shared memory. And they are fair, I think, in their analysis -- except for the insinuation that using ZeroMQ transforms your chosen programming language into a domestic Erlang.

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Note: this blog post talks about the federation plugin preview that was released for RabbitMQ 2.5.0. If you're using 2.6.0 or later, federation is part of the main release; get it the same way you would any other plugin.

Another day, another new plugin release Today it's federation. If you want to skip this post and just download the plugin, go here. The detailed instructions are here.

The high level goal of federation is to scale out publish / subscribe messaging across WANs and administrative domains.

To do this we introduce the concept of the federation exchange. A federation exchange acts like a normal exchange of a given type (it can emulate the routing logic of any installed exchange type), but also knows how to connect to upstream exchanges (which might in turn themselves be federation exchanges). (more…)

The RabbitMQ team is delighted to announce the release of RabbitMQ 2.5.0.

This release fixes a number of bugs. In particular:

• recovery has been simplified, improving startup times when many exchanges or bindings exist
• bindings are recovered between durable queues and non-durable exchanges on restart of individual cluster nodes
• better performance under high load and memory pressure
• source compatibility with the new Erlang R14B03 release

New features include:

• tracing facility for debugging incoming and outgoing messages, (see firehose)
• improved inbound network performance
• improved routing performance
• new rabbitmqctl commands ('report', 'environment', and 'cluster_status')

For details see the release notes.

As always, we welcome any questions, bug reports, and other feedback on this release, as well as general suggestions for features and enhancements in future releases. Mail us via the RabbitMQ discussion list, or directly at info@rabbitmq.com.