They belong to different categories primarily because they are targetted at different audiences with different concerns. Therefore they are better at different things. Apache Thrift similar to Google Protocol Buffers is intended to be high-level, reasonably well abstracted means to send data between processes on different machines, possibly in different languages. They purposefully provide an … Read more
A lot has changed since the OP! There is now an option for high-availability aka “mirrored” queues. This goes pretty far toward solving the problem you described. See http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html.
SOA main principles: Build systems as set of services where each service is Coarse-grained Interoperable Loosely coupled A company offers a lot of business services (coarse-grained) developed over many years and exposed to the users (human or other systems) in some form. There are more chances that each of these features have been designed and … Read more
An overview – A protocol – A set of rules. AMQP – AMQP is an open internet protocol for reliably sending and receiving messages. MOM (message-oriented-middleware) – is an approach, an architecture for distributed system i.e. a middle layer for the whole distributed system, where there’s lot of internal communication (a component is querying data, … Read more
A message queue is a data structure, or a container – a way to hold messages for eventual consumption. A message broker is a separate component that manages queues.
I am trying to answer few questions based on my experience on JMS. Answer 1:- JMS is Java Message Service API; it provides uniform interface for Java clients to access messaging framework. Beneath JMS API is a JMS compliant messaging provider, for example WebSphere MQ provider. JMS supports transport of a payload over any messaging … Read more
As an update — GitHub have moved to Resque on Redis instead of Delayed job. However they still recommend delayed_job for smaller setups: https://github.com/resque/resque
Don’t bother checking. queue.declare is an idempotent operation. So, if you run it once, twice, N times, the result will still be the same. If you want to ensure that the queue exists, just declare it before using it. Make sure you declare it with the same durability, exclusivity, auto-deleted-ness every time, otherwise you’ll get … Read more