Message Queues
Asynchronous Messaging for Web Apps
Cambridge Geek Night 9th June 2009
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How The Web Works
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Make an HTTP Request
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Get an HTTP Response
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Not Just Browsers
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Not Just People
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A Common Pattern
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Make an HTTP Request to a Third Party
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Get an HTTP Request to a Third Party
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A Common Problem
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Fail Whale
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Now What?
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Spinning Beach Ball of Death
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Design for Failure
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Message
Queue
Introduce A Message Queue
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And Response Quickly to the Browser
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Message
Queue
Send An HTTP Request
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Message
Queue
Failure Has No Effect On The Browser
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Message
Queue
And We Can Try Again Later
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Message
Queue
And Post to Multiple Third Parties
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And How
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Ruby and Python and Java
and Erlang and Scala and C#
and Lua and PHP and...
Message Queue Libraries in...
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STOMP and AMQP and
Memcache
Message Queue Protocols
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RabbitMQ and Stompserver
and ZeroMQ and Morbid and
ApacheMQ and Starling and
Beanstalk and Kestrel and
MemcacheQ
Message Queue Software
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RabbitMQ and Stompserver
and ZeroMQ and Morbid and
ApacheMQ and Starling and
Beanstalk and Kestrel and
MemcacheQ
Simple Starting Point
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RabbitMQ and Stompserver
and ZeroMQ and Morbid and
ApacheMQ and Starling and
Beanstalk and Kestrel and
MemcacheQ
Great for Production
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Questions?
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