by Muharem Hrnjadovic for EuroPython 2011
Messaging is a well established domain in information technology and can greatly improve the scalability and throughput of a system when employed appropriately. Message queues can be used to achieve
We use e.g. messaging in OpenQuake to distribute calculations of seismic hazard and the respective risk to human lives and infrastructure.
There is a huge number of messaging patterns identified in the industry and a small selection of these will be presented to whet your appetite :-)
AMQP is a fairly new and open messaging standard with a number of freely available open source message brokers (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, qpid etc.) with different features and performance trade-offs.
In the course of the presentation you will be - introduced to AMQP concepts and jargon - introduced to available Python AMQP bindings (focussing on an asynchronous (txAMQP) and a synchronous variant (most likely kombu) - shown code examples demonstrating how to use these Python bindings
The presentation (45 minutes in total) is structured as follows:
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