Goes through some simplistic items on what message queues are and how you can define them.

1. Mike Willbanks Blog: http://blog.digitalstruct.com Twitter : mwillbanks IRC : lubs on freenode Talk: http://wiki.minnestar.org/MessageQueues The Art of Message Queues MinneBar 2009

3. An exchange of information between systems, programs and/or components.

4. The decoupling of application components.

5. A FIFO buffer

6. What is your definition?

8. Reliability

10. Communication between Systems

11. Asynchronous Processing

12. Scheduling Operations

13. There are many more uses...

14. Usefulness By Example

19. Message Queue Servers / Services

21. Active MQ

22. Beanstalkd

23. Dropr

24. Gearman

25. JMS

26. MemcacheQ

27. Minimalist Queue Services

28. RabbitMQ

29. Spread

31. XML

32. JSON

34. A Simple Architecture Queue Receive Client Message Queue Server Worker

35. A Complex Architecture Client Message Queue Server Worker Worker Worker Worker Worker Message Queue Server Message Queue Server Client Client

36. Demos

37. Mike Willbanks Blog: http://blog.digitalstruct.com Twitter : mwillbanks IRC : lubs on freenode Talk: http://wiki.minnestar.org/MessageQueues Questions?