zeromq

"For some times now, I'm following the slow evolution of AMQP toward it's 1.0 release. In the trip, one traveler decided that the road was far too long, and complex, and choosed to take its independence: ZeroMQ is living its own adventure for some times now. And their choices are intersting, really focused and sharp, so I needed to see what can be done with that message system, and a bit of Scala."

http://fanf42.blogspot.com/2011/02/installing-zeromq-and-java-bindings-on.html

As I was going over the various python code examples at github, I became interested in the taskvent / tasksink / taskwork examples. The pattern was recognizable as one I often use for distributed processing. In the past, I typically would have implemented such a work flow using the python multiprocessing library, using it’s Queue class to communicate between processes. Recently I’ve implemented several data processing pipelines for work using the same technique, but using zeromq channels for communication, and I’ve been extremely pleased with both the performance, and the ease of use.

http://taotetek.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/python-multiprocessing-with-zeromq/

Niki Bowe has a nice blog showing how to integrate ØMQ with QuickFIX to distribute market data (stock quotes):

ZeroMQ + The Active Object Pattern (Google cache, since original article has gone.)