[zeromq-dev] Zeromq Malamute status

Doron Somech somdoron at gmail.com
Sun Jul 7 08:08:38 CEST 2019


I second that. Give Dafka a try...

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 9:34 PM Kevin Sapper <kevinsapper88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I can't tell you about the state of malamute.
>
> But the dafka project might be of interest to you.
> https://github.com/zeromq/dafka
>
> It connects a cluster of publishers to a cluster of subscribers. It also
> uses one or more towers for discovery. Further you can add stores to
> persist your messages. And re-read your chat messages. The tower is
> currently not described in the Readme but you can have a look at the code:
> https://github.com/zeromq/dafka/blob/master/src/dafka_tower.c
>
> //Kevin
>
>
> Peter Yu <yukw777 at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 3. Juli 2019, 23:58:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I've been designing a chat system, and I was wondering if anyone could
>> tell me a bit about the current status and direction of Malamute.
>>
>> The chat system I'm envisioning is a pub/sub system with a cluster of
>> publishers sending messages to a cluster of subscribers. In order to solve
>> the problem of dynamic discovery, I tried adding an intermediary as
>> suggested in the guide <https://pushpin.org/>, but I noticed that the
>> intermediary becomes the single point of failure. I then started looking
>> for ways to have a cluster of intermediaries for resiliency, and I stumbled
>> upon Malamute.
>>
>> The white paper looks awesome, and I really like the fact that it can be
>> used as a library to implement custom brokers. However, it seems like the
>> project is not really active and production ready. More importantly, the
>> Malamute pack has not been implemented yet.
>>
>> Ultimately, I will have to pass on using Malamute and go with another
>> broker, but I was very curious on what the current status and the future
>> plan are. I hope you don't mind me cold emailing you with a bunch of
>> questions, and thank you for your help in advance!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
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