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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2020 1:19 PM, Jean-François Piéronne wrote:
> Le 29/11/2020 à 17:32, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) a écrit :
>> In article <7524ac37-50bd-4806-9e88-bacad47d492bn at googlegroups.com>,
>> Galen <gltackett at gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 5:41:35 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote
>>>> (and if I needed billions I would look at Kafka).
>>>
>>> Hmm. I haven't read much of his work (\_The Castle_/, \_The
>>> Metamorphosis_/, \_In The Penal Colony_/, and probably a few other short
>>> pieces), but I don't recall such a voluminous flow of messages being a
>>> theme. But it might be amusing to sketch out or even write something
>>> short and Kafka-esque around such an idea.
>>
>> Not sure who intended and who gets what, but Kafka is some sort of
>> newfangled messaging system or whatever.  Not sure of the origin of the
>> name.  (Python refers to Monty.)
> 
> I know OpenVMS sites which are using RabbitMQ for years and are very
> happy with it.

RabbitMQ is a fine traditional message queue (Kafka is not
a traditional message queue - it is often called a
message stream processing service).

RabbitMQ is probably the most popular non-Java
open source message queue.

Arne