Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Last month the AMQP working group, which includes big hitters such as Bank of America, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Cisco, VMWare, Redhat, and Informatica finalised version 1.0 of the AMQP standard. It has been 5 years in the making, the market for messaging has changed a lot in that time. What is AMQP? [...]
David Dossot on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Messaging systems used to be found only in big enterprises or in the financial sector. Who else needed the reliability and scalability offered by such systems? But times have changed: public web sites have grown to sizes that dwarf some of the most advanced corporate systems. And as these web sites have grown, the need [...]
David Dossot on Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Three months ago, I’ve introduced the newly created Erlang Transport for Mule 3 in this blog. To illustrate a usage scenario for this transport, which allows fast and seamless bi-directional communications between the JVM and the Erlang worlds, I presented an example where Mule was exposing a JSON over HTTP service for provisioning users in [...]
David Dossot on Thursday, July 8, 2010
Though a veteran language and platform, Erlang has recently gained a lot of traction, as very visible web sites and open source projects decided to use it in order to leverage its intrinsic support for highly concurrent, fault tolerant and distributed applications. To name a few, let’s mention: Facebook Chat, Mochiweb, ejabberd, RabbitMQ, riak and CouchDB. Without [...]
